Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.

I'm definitely someone who likes to fly by the seat of her pants. My mum always prays for the best.

As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.

I pray that god answers, maybe I'll ask nicer

The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

Worship God in the difficult circumstances, and when He chooses, He will alter them in two seconds.

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.

People ask me, 'Why pray if God is sovereign?' I respond, 'Why pray if He isn't?

But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.

The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer.

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

Christ sometimes provokes a question so that He can be the answer.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

Thank God for unanswered prayers.

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer.

God is honored by large, difficult, and impossible requests when we ask, seek, knock, and trust our loving Father always to answer for our good.

God shapes the world by prayer.

The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?

God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.