| PRAYER - Answer See also: Prayer-unanswered | 禱告 - 應允 |
| Waiting for an answer to prayer is often part of the
answer. 對禱告的人而言，等待上帝的應允禱告經常是上帝應允禱告的一部份。 |
| We dare not limit God in our
asking, nor in his answering. 我們不敢在我們的祈求上限制上帝，也不敢在祂的答覆禱告上限制祂。 |
| To spend an hour worrying on our knees is not
prayer. Indeed, there are times when it is our duty, having committed a problem to
God in prayer, to stop praying and to trust and to do the necessary work to arrive at a
solution. Oliver Barclay 花上一個小時屈膝擔憂並不是禱告。事實上，工作有時、將問題藉著禱告帶到上帝面前也有時，停止禱告有時、信賴有時、有時有需要做需要做的事情好得到一個解答。 |
| Pure prayers have pure
blessings. Thomas Goodwin 純全的禱告得到純全的賜福。 |
| Those blessings are sweetest that are won with
prayers and worn with thanks. Thomas Goodwin 最甜美的賜福是藉禱告得著，並藉感恩穿上。 |
| Good prayers never come
weeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask or what I should ask. Joseph Hall 好的禱告絕不會讓人哭泣回家。我相信我必得著我所祈求或是我該祈求的東西。 |
| Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a
well; while the one ascends, the other descends. Mark Hopkins 我們的禱告與上帝的憐憫就像井裡的兩個吊桶，這個上來，另一個就下去。 |
| We shall be glad that God
makes us wait for mercy. A great part of our sanctification is waiting for answer to
our prayers. Humphrey Mildred 我們應該高興上帝讓我們等待祂的垂憐。在我們成聖的事上，有不少部分是在等待上帝回答我們的禱告時成就的。 |
| If it were the case that whatever we ask God was
pledged to give, then I for one would never pray again, because I would not have
sufficient confidence in my own wisdom to ask God for anything. J. Alec Motyer 如果無論我求甚麼上帝保證都會給，那我就絕不會再祈求，因為靠著我自己的智慧，我沒有足夠的信心向上帝祈求任何事情。 |
| I live in the spirit of
prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And
answers are always coming. George Muller 我活在禱告的精神中。在行走、在躺下、在起身時我禱告。而上帝的應允雖時來到。 |
| All my discoveries have been made in answer to
prayer. Isaac Newton 我一切的發現都是在上帝應允我的禱告中發現的。 |
| God's condescension is
nowhere more conspicuous than in his hearing of prayer. Austin Phelps 再沒有比上帝垂聽禱告時更能看見上帝的屈恭降卑。 |
| Genuine prayer will be looking out for answers. William S. Plumer 真正的禱告守望等候上帝的回答。 |
| Heaven finds an ear when
sinners find a tongue. Francis Quarles 當罪人找到舌頭時，天上也找到耳朵。 |
| When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it;
when we send a ship to sea, we look for the return of it; and when we sow seed, we look
for a harvest; and so when we sow our prayers into God's bosom, shall we not look for an
answer? Richard Sibbes 當我們射箭時，我們要看箭的落點；我們看著一條船出航，也會等待它返航；當我們撒種我們期望收成；因此當我們將禱告撒向上帝心中，我們不也期待一個回應？ |
| We should believe that
nothing is too small to be named before God. What should we think of the patient who
told his doctor he was ill, but never went into particulars? J. C. Ryle 我們必須相信沒有事情是微不足道不值得帶到上帝面前的。如果一個病人去看醫生，只告訴醫生他病了卻不告訴他仔細的病情，我們作何感想呢？ |