Quotes About Prayer

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

I assure you, where prayer focuses power falls.

What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

Waiting prayer, or waiting on the Lord, is the silent surrendering of the soul to God. It is wordless worship. It is seeking God not from without but from within. It is to seek God in your heart.

If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

A man is powerful on his knees.

Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

Prayer shouldn't be casual or sporadic, dictated only by the needs of the moment. Prayer should be as much a part of our lives as breathing.