Quotes About Prayer

Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat.

No prayer is complete without presence.

Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

This much is sure in all churches, forgetting party labels; the smallest meeting numerically is the prayer-meeting. If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job training' in overcoming the forces hostile to God.

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

Prayer does not change God, it changes us. It deepens insight, increases intuitive perception, expands consciousness. It transforms personality.

The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.

God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.