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Quotes About Prayer

We look upon prayer as a means of getting things for ourselves The Bible idea of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
~ Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.
~ John Newton
I used to pray that God would do this or that now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
~ Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads and pray "Lord show me where I'm wrong"?
~ Anonymous
Create in me a clean heart O God.
~ Bible
Pray always pray when sickness wastes thy frame Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
~ A. B. Simpson
Prayer honors God acknowledges His being exalts His power adores His providence secures His aid.
~ E. M. Bounds
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
~ Thomas B. Brooks
Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pray for powers equal to your tasks.
~ Phillips Brooks
And since He bids me seek His face Believe His word and trust His grace I'll cast on Him my every care And wait for thee sweet hour of prayer.
~ W. W. Walford
The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.
~ John Laidlaw
Cast thy burden upon the Lord and he shall sustain thee.
~ Psalms ss:zx
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is O ye gods give me whatever is fitting unto me!
~ Appollonius of Tyana
Before we can pray "Lord Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray "My Kingdom go."
~ Alan Redpath
We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know Jesus in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.
~ O. Hallesby
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
~ William Law
Ask God's blessing on your work but don't ask him to do it for you.
~ Dame Flora Robson
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
~ George Santayana
Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.
~ Sir William Gurney Benham
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
~ Madame de Stael
You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
~ A. J. Gordon
Visualize "prayerize " "actionize " and your wishes will come true.
~ Charles L. Allen
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.
~ Gerald Vann
Poverty chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.
~ Katheryn Hulme