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Quotes About Prayer

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
~ Kevin DeYoung
Faith is the fountain of prayer and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.
~ Thomas Manton
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore but a supreme delight.
~ Gordon Lindsay
Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.
~ Dean Register
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
~ James Russell Lowell
Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.
~ John Bunyan
Prayer is the spiritual gymnasium in which we exercise and practice godliness.
~ V. L. Crawford
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."
~ A. B. Simpson
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart and in spirit.
~ Alexander Whyte
Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.
~ E. W. Kenyon
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him whether the heart is full or empty.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer is our most formidable weapon the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
~ E. M. Bounds
Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
~ Oswald Chambers
Prayer is a cry of distress a demand for help a hymn of love.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.
~ Phillips Brooks
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
~ Oswald Chambers
Prayer is a condition of mind an attitude of heart which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking in sighing or in audible words.
~ O. Hallesby
Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.
~ Ellen G. White
The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.
~ Howard Chandler Robbins
Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.
~ Anonymous
Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.
~ Charlotte Elliott
Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.
~ Dick Eastman
Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
~ Georges Bernanos
Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.
~ Monica Johnson