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Quotes About Prayer

It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room.
~ George Bowen
The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.
~ Wiley Drake
Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.
~ David Jeremiah
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
~ Ann Voskamp
I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.
~ Ronald Reagan
Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!
~ Adolf Hitler
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
~ J.I. Packer
Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.
~ Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
~ Richard Cecil
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
~ Andrew Murray
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
~ Matthew Henry
Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.
~ Herbert Lockyer
When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.
~ Matthew Henry
Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.
~ Andy Murray
The life of a good man is a continual prayer.
~ Charlotte Lennox
Surely we may with reverence say that, in a true and deep sense, God Himself is the answer to prayer.
~ Caroline Emelia Stephen
Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.
~ Mother Teresa
Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.
~ Peter Forsyth
Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.
~ Peter Forsyth
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him."
~ Watchman Nee
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
~ William Ralph Inge
God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.
~ Joyce Meyer
When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.
~ John of Kronstadt
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee