Quotes About Prayer

Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.

When you go to your knees God will help you stand up to anything.

Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress and all paths lead to a single light.

The man who prays grows and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.

Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.

The essence of prayer even of a mystical experience is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.

Prayer puts God's work in His hands-and keeps it there.

It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.

A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

If God does not give you something you ask for wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

True prayer always receives what it asks for-or something better.

Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life's daily frustrations.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Prayer is the voice of faith.

Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.

Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies but great faith still greater.