Quotes About Prayer

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

We pray with sometimes unseemly insistence for specific things to happen. We give no thought to the myriad ways in which they might come to pass.

but all I did was pray to the Lord and ask for some guidance and direction in connection with the decision that I'd reached. A more perfect thing to have done would have been to counsel with him relative to the decision and get a spiritual confirmation that the conclusion, which I by my agency and faculties had arrived at, was the right one. ("Agency or Inspiration?" New Era, January 1975, p. 40)

Question for God every morning: What is the main event today? What do you want me to focus on today?

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask of him.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

We ought to contemplate providence not as curious and fickle persons are wont to do but as a ground of confidence and excitement to prayer. When he informs us that the hairs of our head are all numbered it is not to encourage trivial speculations but to instruct us to depend on the fatherly care of God which is exercised over these frail bodies.

It is a beastly business when people start eating without prayer, and when they are full, they run out without as much as mentioning God's name.

First, since by God's command all the saints daily ask for their sins to be forgiven (Matt.6:12), they confess themselves sinners. They do not ask in vain, for the Lord Jesus never bade us ask for something which he would not give us.

We unlearn the art of speaking well when we cease to speak with God.

So, too, David, after he has prayed the ways of God be made known to him so that he may walk in his truth, immediately adds, "Unite my heart to fear thy name" [Ps. 86:11; cf. Ps. 119:33]. By these words he means that even well-disposed persons have been subject to so many distractions that they readily vanish or fall away unless they are strengthened to persevere.

It follows that we pray rightly only when we come to God trusting in the Mediator.

O, man! learn from the precept what you ought to do; learn from correction, that it is your own fault you have not the power; and learn in prayer, whence it is that you may receive the power.

Unless we ardently and prayerfully devote ourselves to Christ's righteousness we do not only faithlessly revolt from our Creator, but we also abjure him as our Savior.

In regard to the present question, while it explains what our duty is it teaches that the power of obeying it is derived from the goodness of God, and it accordingly urges us to pray that this power may be given us.

all those who storm heaven like giants, without Christ's help, are deprived of any right knowledge of God. Anyone