Quotes About Prayer

The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that, he can sleep.

My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.

Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.

Helplessness is unquestionably the first and the surest indication of a praying heart. ... Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

Being in an agony, he prayed more earnestly.

When my soul fainted within me ... my prayer came in unto thee.

He will regard the prayer of the destitute.

An agnostic found himself in trouble, and a friend suggested he pray. "How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?" he asked. "If you are lost in the forest," his friend replied, "you do not wait until you find someone before shouting for help."

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

He who cannot pray when the sun is shining will not know how to pray when the clouds come.

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy room, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father who is in secret; and thy Father who seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly.

When you enter your secret chamber, take plenty of time before you begin to speak. Let quietude wield its influence upon you. Let the fact that you are alone assert itself. Give your soul time to get released from the many outward things. Give God time to play the prelude to prayer for the benefit of your distracted soul.

There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer, even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be dumb.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

God may turn his ears from prattling prayers, or preaching prayers, but never from penitent, believing prayers.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.

God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.