Quotes About Prayer

Do not pray by heart, but with the heart.

Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

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

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

None can pray well but he that lives well.

Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.

We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy to God when the life has not been holy to God.

Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer, no ear in heaven will mind it; And the finest phrase falls dead, if there is no feeling behind it.

Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

Prayer is not artful monologue Of voice uplifted from the son; It is Love's tender dialogue Between the soul and God.

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter. Later he explained, "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."

Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

When prayer is a struggle, do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him. And He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.

Productive prayer requires earnestness, not eloquence.

Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.

Many words do not a good prayer make; what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God, and the faith to back it up.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

You are coming to a King, Large petitions with you bring For his grace and power are such None can ever ask too much.