Quotes About Prayer

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer.

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.

Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.

Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.