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Quotes About Prayer

Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
~ Thomas Merton
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
~ Umar
I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
~ Mary Karr
God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.
~ Jurgen Moltmann
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
~ John Wesley
The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
~ Robbie Robertson
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman
~ Desiderius Erasmus
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
~ Brother Lawrence
Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.
~ Clement of Alexandria
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
~ John of the Cross
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'.
~ Tomas Transtromer
Prayer does not change God; it changes me.
~ C. S. Lewis
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.
~ S. D Gordon
Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it
~ Mother Teresa
Real prayer is communion with God
~ Arthur W. Pink
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
~ John Stott
The richness of God's Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
You have to listen to the one who calls you beloved. That has to be affirmed over and over again. That is prayer - listening to the voice of the one who calls you "the beloved."
~ Henri Nouwen
Prayer is simple, prayer is supernatural, and to anyone not related to our Lord Jesus Christ, prayer is apt to look stupid.
~ Oswald Chambers
Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
~ Charles Spurgeon