Quotes About Prayer

The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . .

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

A coward cannot have any prayer answered.

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.

Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.

Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.