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Quotes About Prayer

I'm convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
~ Wess Stafford
Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.
~ Malcolm Boyd
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
~ E. M. Bounds
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
~ Evelyn Underhill
The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.
~ Charles Brent
It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.
~ Jeff Cooper
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
~ Victor Hugo
You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.
~ Mark Batterson
When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
~ Mark Batterson
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
~ John Piper
Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.
~ Harold George Koenig
Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.
~ Francois Fenelon
I'm afraid I did not pray hard enough last night.
~ Etty Hillesum
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
~ Oswald Chambers
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
~ Thomas Brooks
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.
~ Herbert J. Muller
The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.
~ Watchman Nee
It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.
~ Bertrand Russell
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.
~ S. D Gordon
The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.
~ David Jeremiah
Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.
~ Mark Batterson