Quotes About Prayer

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.

What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.

The determined fixing of our will upon God, and pressing toward him steadily and without deflection; this is the very center and the art of prayer.

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o'er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.

Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.