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Quotes About Prayer

Your desire is your prayer.
~ Joseph Murphy
To start the day without prayer is to suggest the devil is feeble, God is irrelevant, and we can handle things on our own.
~ Kevin DeYoung
Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer.
~ Jim Cymbala
The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.
~ John Bunyan
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
~ Oswald Chambers
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
~ George Whitefield
When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
~ John Vianney
When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
~ Origen
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.
~ John Wooden
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
~ Phillips Brooks
Miracles happen. But prayer is needed! Prayer that is courageous, struggling and persevering, not prayer that is a mere formality.
~ Pope Francis
Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.
~ Evagrius Ponticus
If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?
~ Dave Willis
Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.
~ Rich Mullins
Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer
~ John C. Maxwell
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
~ Billy Graham
The seeker's silence is the loudest form of prayer.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
~ E. M. Bounds
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
~ G. Campbell Morgan
Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.
~ Priscilla Shirer
Give us this day our daily mask.
~ Tom Stoppard
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."
~ Byron Katie