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Quotes About Prayer

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.
~ John Henry Jowett
Prayer is the passport to peace.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.
~ William Cowper
An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.
~ Josemaria Escriva
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure.
~ Larry Dossey
God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.
~ Arthur Tappan Pierson
Prayer is the best weapon we possess. It is the key that opens the heart of God.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.
~ Ole Hallesby
Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.
~ John Bunyan
It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Join a company of young men and women who have made a covenant by sacrifice to turn a nation through united massive fasting and prayer.
~ Lou Engle
The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.
~ Ravi Zacharias
One of the first, and most important of those duties which are incumbent upon us, is fervent and united prayer.
~ William Carey
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.
~ Teresa of Avila
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
~ Brigham Young
Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.
~ Dutch Sheets
Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
~ John Calvin
You wonder why we're having shootings and killings here in 2017? Because we've asked for it. We've taken prayer out of school.
~ Roy Moore
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
~ Saint Augustine
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
~ Dear Jesus, do something.
Prayer is the breath of the new creature.
~ Richard Baxter
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.
~ Arthur W. Pink