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Ole Kristian O. Hallesby Quotes
June 14, 2002
Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given
free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any
situation and change things.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
August 26, 2002
When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle about myself to some
extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration,
seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and
redemption.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
November 22, 2002
Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of
Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from
discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must
perform.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
September 5, 2003
When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his
doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for
our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
September 24, 2003
To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus
access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in
dealing with them.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
July 23, 2004
There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to
continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already
said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy
presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be
in Thy presence."
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
February 2, 2005
I do not think that we should look upon...painful experiences too
pessimistically. Surely they are more profitable than we think at the
time we are going through the anguish connected with them. But if they
are to be of any benefit to us, we must, in the first place, be truthful
and not begin to practice deception, that is, excuse and defend our
slovenly prayer life. We must admit our weakness in prayer, admit that
we are faced with a problem which cannot be solved by our own efforts.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
August 9, 2005
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from
your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered
pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with
helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and
answering the prayer of your helplessness.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
November 12, 2005
As white snowflakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day, answers to
prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take, even to your
dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and
answers to prayer.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
February 4, 2006
To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance,
not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of
your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when
you need Him most.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
June 16, 2006
We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left
our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all
true prayer.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
August 30, 2006
When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then
we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts
are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can
wait for the Lord.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
February 24, 2007
Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks,
my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my
soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the
majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
April 15, 2007
You can use your time to no better advantage than to pray whenever you
have a moment, either alone, or with others, while at work, at rest, or
walking down the street! Anywhere!!
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
July 20, 2007
To strive in prayer means to struggle through those hindrances which
would restrain or even prevent us entirely from continuing in
persevering prayer. It means to be so watchful at all times that we can
notice when we become slothful in prayer and that we go to the Spirit of
prayer to have this remedied. In this struggle, too, the decisive
factor is the Spirit of prayer.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
January 5, 2008
The air which our body requires envelops us on every hand. The air of
itself seeks to enter our bodies and, for this reason, exerts pressure
upon us. It is well known that it is more difficult to hold one's breath
than it is to breathe. We need but exercise our organs of respiration,
and air will enter forthwith into our lungs and perform its life-giving
function to the entire body. The air which our souls need also envelops
all of us at all times and on all sides. God is round about us in Christ
on every hand, with his many sided and all-sufficient grace. All we
need to do is to open our hearts.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
February 18, 2008
The purpose of fasting is to loosen to some degree the ties which
bind
us to the world of material things
and our surroundings as a whole, in order that we may concentrate all
our
spiritual
powers
upon the unseen and eternal things.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
April 7, 2009
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from
your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered
pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with
helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and
answering the prayer of your helplessness.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
July 19, 2009
Jesus wills of His own accord to come into us and, in His own power, to
deal with our needs. It is not necessary for us to constrain Him by our
prayers to take an interest in us.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
September 7, 2009
Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what
He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank
Thee, Saviour, because Thou has died for me." Thank Him likewise for all
the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings
joy to Jesus.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
February 23, 2010
Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to come in to us. All He needs is access. He enters in of His own accord, because He desires to come in. To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs, and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them. And that requires no strength. It is only a question of our wills. Will we give Jesus access to our needs?.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
May 1, 2010
It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
July 31, 2010
Nothing makes us so bold in prayer as when we can look into the eye of God and say to Him, "Thou knowest that I am not praying for personal advantage, nor to avoid hardship, nor that my own will in any way should be done, but only for this, that Thy name might be glorified.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
March 27, 2011
When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him. And he hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
December 6, 2011
Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer. Without faith our helplessness would only be a vain cry of distress in the night.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
February 29, 2012
Whenever we touch his Almighty arm, some of his omnipotence streams in upon us, into our souls and into our bodies. And not only that, but through us, it streams out to others.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
April 11, 2012
When Jesus hears our prayers and intervenes in our distress, He does so because His love toward us is free and unmerited, and because he by His suffering and death has purchased and won for us all that we need. And He is now ready at all times to give us these things. He waits only for one thing, and for this He must wait, and that is for us to ask Him to help us. For Jesus will not and cannot force Himself into our distress. We ourselves must open unto Him. And that is the purpose that our prayers should serve.
Ole Kristian O. Hallesby
Brief Biography
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