Lord, Teach Us To Pray Quotes

“Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“As bread is the first need of the body, so forgiveness for the soul.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“every one must have some solitary spot where he can be alone with his God.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Lord! teach me to tarry with Thee in the school, and give Thee time to train me. May a deep sense of my ignorance, of the wonderful privilege and power of prayer, of the need of the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of prayer, lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“O my Lord! strengthen my faith so in the Father's tender love and kindness, that as often as I feel sinful or troubled, the first instinctive thought may be to go where I know the Father waits me, and where prayer never can go unblessed. Let the thought that He knows my need before I ask, bring me, in great restfulness of faith, to trust that He will give what His child requires. O let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“And wherever faith has accepted the Father's love, obedience accepts the Father's will. The surrender to, and the prayer for a life of heaven-like obedience, is the spirit of childlike prayer.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Jesus would train us to the blessed life of consecration and service, in which our interests are all subordinate to the Name, and the Kingdom, and the Will of the Father.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“As long as in our worship of God we are chiefly occupied with our own thoughts and exercises, we shall not meet Him who is a Spirit, the unseen One. But to the man who withdraws himself from all that is of the world and man, and prepares to wait upon God alone, the Father will reveal Himself. As he forsakes and gives up and shuts out the world, and the life of the world, and surrenders himself to be led of Christ into the secret of God's presence, the light of the Father's love will rise upon him.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“lead me to cast away my thoughts of what I think I know, and make me kneel before Thee in true teachableness and poverty of spirit.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise. It”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“To be alone in secret with the Father: this be your highest joy. To be assured that the Father will openly reward the secret prayer, so that it cannot remain unblessed:”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Not on the strong or the fervent feeling with which I pray does the blessing of the closet depend, but upon the love and the power of the Father to whom I there entrust my needs.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“By His Holy Spirit, He has access to our heart, and teaches us to pray by showing us the sin that hinders the prayer, or giving us the assurance that we please God. He teaches, by giving not only thoughts of what to ask or how to ask, but by breathing within us the very spirit of prayer, by living within us as the Great Intercessor. We may indeed and most joyfully say, 'Who teacheth like Him?' Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not power with men, but power with God is the first thing. Jesus loves to teach us how to pray.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“There are two sorts of prayer: personal and intercessory. The latter ordinarily occupies the lesser part of our time and energy. This may not be. Christ has opened the school of prayer specially to train intercessors for the great work of bringing down, by their faith and prayer, the blessings of His work and love on the world around. There can be no deep growth in prayer unless this be made our aim.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Lord, teach us to pray.' Yes, to pray. This is what we need to be taught. Though in its beginnings prayer is so simple that the feeble child can pray, yet it is at the same time the highest and holiest work to which man can rise. It is fellowship with the Unseen and Most Holy One. The powers of the eternal world have been placed at its disposal. It is the very essence of true religion, the channel of all blessings, the secret of power and life. Not only for ourselves, but for others, for the Church, for the world, it is to prayer that God has given the right to take hold of Him and His strength. It is on prayer that the promises wait for their fulfilment, the kingdom for its coming, the glory of God for its full revelation.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“only what is really confessed is really forgiven.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“and let the infinite Fatherliness of God's Heart be my joy and strength for a life of prayer and of worship. Amen.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“It is the very essence of true religion, the channel of all blessings, the secret of power and life.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Do not be thinking of how little you have to bring God, but of how much He wants to give you. Just place yourself before, and look up into, His face; think of His love, His wonderful, tender, pitying love. Just tell Him how sinful and cold and dark all is: it is the Father's loving heart will give light and warmth to yours. O do what Jesus says: Just shut the door, and pray to thy Father, which is in secret.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“As He makes us partakers of His righteousness and His life, He will of His intercession too. As”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man. Not”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“has to do, not with human thoughts or possibilities, but with the word of the living God. And so, even as Abraham through so many years “who against hope believed in hope” (Romans 4:18), and then “followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.” (Hebrews 6:12) To enable us, when the answer to our prayer does not come at once, to combine quiet patience and joyful confidence in our persevering prayer, we must especially try to understand the words in which our Lord sets forth the character and conduct, not of the unjust judge, but of our God and Father, toward those whom He allows to cry day and night to Him: “I tell you that He will avenge them”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us to Pray

“But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thine inner chamber, and having shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall recompense thee.'—Matt. vi. 6.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

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― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“places. A man who seeks to pray earnestly in the church or in the closet, spends the greater part of the week or the day in a spirit entirely at variance with that in which he prayed. His worship was the work of a fixed place or hour, not of his whole”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray

“Jesus never taught His disciples how to preach, only how to pray. He did not speak much of what was needed to preach well, but much of praying well. To know how to speak to God is more than knowing how to speak to man.”
― Andrew Murray, Lord, Teach Us To Pray