Quotes About Prayer

We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.

A church that likes power likes prayer.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.

Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.

He prayeth best who loveth best.

Mighty prayer has often been produced by mighty trial.

It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.

I have felt the impact of your prayer in these past weeks. I am certain now that nothing has had a more powerful infl uence on this life of mine than your prayers.

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth's appearing.

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal. Our daily devotions were more necessary to us than daily food.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

The prayer of the farmer kneeling in his field to weed it, the prayer of the rower kneeling with the stroke of his oar, are true prayers heard throughout nature.

Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.