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Quotes About Prayer

All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.
~ Delma Jackson
To have a curable illness and to leave it untreated except for prayer is like sticking your hand in a fire and asking God to remove the flame.
~ Sandra L. Douglas
Watch your motive before God have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
~ Oswald Chambers
For we know not what we should pray for.
~ Bible
God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
~ Myles Munroe
Oh what a cause of thankfulness it is that we have a gracious God to go to on all occasions! Use and enjoy this privilege and you can never be miserable. Oh what an unspeakable privilege is prayer!
~ Lady Maxwell
Even if no command to pray had existed our very weakness would have suggested it.
~ Francois de Fenelon
By prayer the ability is secured to feel the law of love to speak according to the law of love and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.
~ E. M. Bounds
Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.
~ George David Stewart
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience the next for health of mind and then of body.
~ Seneca
The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs but to invite Him to rule our lives.
~ Clarence Bauman
O Lord forgive what I have been sanctify what I am and order what I shall be.
~ Anonymous
No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
~ John Berridge
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil not that he practices it but he suffers from it.
~ Guy H. King
We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.
~ E. M. Bounds
If we ask anything according to his will he heareth us.
~ Bible
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray pray thyself in me.
~ Francois de Fenelon
True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will not the other way around.
~ Anonymous
Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee That we his evil power may bind His prisoners to free.
~ Watchman Nee
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and a happy life.
~ William Law
Non-praying is lawlessness discord anarchy.
~ E. M. Bounds