Quotes About Prayer

There was no such thing as a prayer of supplication in the old religion, only ways of giving thanks.

Prayer is the heart's sincere desire, Uttered or unexpressed,

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.

God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.

We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.

Father, my heart, my heart; my dead heart, quicken it; my hard heart, soften it in Christ's blood. Father, my heart, my heart.' Surely God, who hears the cry of ravens, will hear the cry of his children!

He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.

The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.

A godly man will forgive those who have wronged him Revenge is sweet to nature. A gracious spirit passes by affronts, forgets injuries and counts it a greater victory to conquer an enemy by patience than by power. It is truly heroic "to overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21). Though I would not trust an enemy—yet I would endeavor to love him. I would exclude him from my creed—but not from my prayer (Matt. 5:44).

Some complain they find no benefit by the word preached; perhaps they did not pray for their minister as they should.

Do they think the tree of blessing will drop its fruit into their mouth when they never shook it by prayer? God does not set His mercies at so low a rate as to cast them away upon those who do not seek them, Ezekiel 36:37.

A godly man is on the mount of prayer every day. He begins the day with prayer. Before he opens his shop—he opens his heart to God! We burn sweet incense in our houses; a godly man's house is "a house of incense"; he airs it with the incense of prayer. He engages in no business without seeking God. A godly man consults God in everything; he asks God's permission and his blessing.

is a command of God to pray without ceasing, 1 Thess. 5:17. The meaning is—not that we should be always praying—but that we should every day set some time apart for prayer.

When we pray for grace and use opportunities to the full, this is laying a fig on the boil which will make us recover. To pray for holiness and neglect the means—is like winding up the clock and taking off the weights.

A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.

A shaking hand may as well write a line steadily, as we can keep our hearts fixed in prayer without the Spirit of God.

Prayer is the spiritual pulse of the soul, by which it beats strongly after God.

They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.

We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be the feast of our graces, and the funeral of our corruptions; that it may not only be a sign to represent, but an instrument to convey, Christ to us, and a seal to assure us of our heavenly jointure [union].

If, when God speaks to us in his word, we are deaf, when we speak to him in prayer, he will be dumb.

I'm not sure if I should pray to the Muslim God or the Hindu one. If Abdul were alive he would say there is only one God and I must pray to the God called Justice. But I am going to court because Abdul is dead.

Maybe when people die, they become a spec in the eye of God. Maybe it Abdul to who I must pray. Maybe he can do in death what he couldn't do in life. Save me from the devils I must face in court.