Quotes About Prayer

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.