Quotes related to Hebrews 11:6
The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.
- Evelyn Underhill
Brother, if you would enter that Province, you must go forward on your knees.
- Hudson Taylor
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
- Thomas Watson
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
- Mother Teresa
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
- George Eliot
We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.
- Phillips Brooks
Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.
- Anne Graham Lotz
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
A generous prayer is never presented in vain the petition may be refused but the petitioner is always I believe rewarded by some gracious visitation.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
- Oswald Chambers
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
- Andrew Murray
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
- Oswald Chambers