Phillips Brooks Quotes

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

I once heard somebody say that God had closed a door on an opportunity they had hoped for. But I've always wondered if when we want to do something that we know is right and good, God places that desire deep in our hearts because He wants it for us and it honors Him. Maybe there are times when we think a door has been closed and, instead of misinterpreting the circumstances, God wants us to kick it down. Or perhaps just sit outside of it long enough until somebody tells us we can come in.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Pray in faith.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.

Don't worry about how inexperienced you are or think you are, but think about what, with the Lord's help, you can become.

Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God

I believe with faith all is possible. An answer to prayer is greatest positive feedback you can get.

You know how to pray, don’t you? Just put your hands together and hope.

Throughout the years I feel if God promotes me to stay alive and have more years to live on Earth, which I pray and I would love to, people are going to see my personality, and they're going to see more of me and be able to understand me more.

Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone - with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

You've promised that if we come to You and ask something in faith, that You'll do it.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

God is not bothered by your persistence. Keep asking.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.