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Quotes About Prayer

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Increase in prayer, increase in prayer, increase in prayer until Jesus comes.
~ Karen Wheaton
Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
~ Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.
~ Steven Furtick
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.
~ Vance Havner
We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.
~ J. Reuben Clark
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
~ William James
It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.
~ Yasmin
Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
When the problem is worry, the prescription is prayer.
~ David Jeremiah
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
~ D. A. Carson
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.
~ John Climacus
The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.
~ John Climacus
Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray.
~ Jacob Peterson
...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.
~ Charles Spurgeon
God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.
~ Louie Giglio
You cannot pray for an A on a test and study for a B. You cannot pray for a celestial marriage and live a telestial life. You cannot pray for something and act less.
~ Tad R. Callister
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
~ John Vianney
If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!
~ Cyprian
Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means to obtain from God the graces which we need.
~ Pier Giorgio Frassati
Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection.
~ George Washington
Life is fragile, handle with prayer.
~ Amanda Hudson
Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.
~ David Jeremiah