Quotes About Prayer

However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.

In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.

When the heart gets into prayer, every beat of the heart creates a miracle.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.

The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that!

In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.