Quotes About Prayer

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

If you have so much business to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend upon it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended you should have.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

There are no 'if's' in God's world. And no places that are safer than other places. The center of His will is our only safety - let us pray that we may always know it!

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

Revival begins in the individual's heart. Let it begin with you on your face alone before God. Turn from every sin that might hinder. Renew yourself to a new devotion to the Savior.

I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.

Ask God to show you His plans, not bless your dreams

Just pray and God gone make a way

Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

Beware of begging God for things you don't have to have.

Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

Oh, this thing of keeping in constant touch with God, of making him the object of my thought and the companion of my conversations, is the most amazing thing I ever ran across.

Asking God for a specific thing will amount to limiting God to a specific answer.

You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway...

God... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness!

God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

To pray is to mount on eagle's wings above the clouds and get into the clear heaven where God dwelleth.

Question: How do you know you're God? Answer: Simple. When I pray to him, I find I'm talking to myself.

God is the partner of your most intimate soliloquies