Quotes About Prayer

This prayer for the Holy Spirit to strengthen the inner man of believers is one of the most important prayers recorded in the Scripture, and it is vital that we understand it if we want to grow in prayer.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.1 —JOHN CALVIN

Beloved, our private times of prayer and our public prayer meetings may not move us, but they move the angels, and more importantly, they move the heart of God. Never measure your prayers by what you feel; when we pray in agreement with God's will, our "weak prayers" move the heart of God even if they do not move ours.

Being a person of prayer is the most important calling in one's life.

It is not enough to desire to pray; we must resolutely stay with it.

A look at Simeon and Anna also shows how God significantly uses older people in serving the Lord through continual prayer and fasting. In our day, God is going to use people who are retired. If you are nearing retirement, your strength has been given to you for this hour, and God has freed you from many things. There's not a more powerful force in the earth than that of senior saints who have time and passion for Jesus.

Prayer is not about informing or persuading God but about connecting with Him in relationship. He is looking for conversation and dialogue with

We don't want people to understand forgiveness or prayer or mission or justice only intellectually. We want people who can forgive, who can hear and respond to God, who actually know Him. We want people who have hearts that break for our world and the people in it and do something about it. We want the kind of people in our communities who resemble the people we see in Scripture.

Prayer was as fundamental an element in the life of Jesus as breathing. He inhaled his Father's presence so he could exhale his Father's will.

The model for prayer taught us by Jesus is shallow enough for a baby to bathe in and deep enough for elephants to swim through.

It doesn't do you any good to pray in question marks.

I am also praying for you, my beloved partner. God has a miracle breakthrough for your life.

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse-- no matter the people-- no matter the language-- Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one-- long enough-- hard enough-- You will find one truth.

God always listens to my prayers, then does the exact opposite.

abiding peacefully, prayerfully, patiently, passionately, and persistently in God's presence, looking to the future with expectancy and hope.

Orar no es vencer la renuencia de Dios, sino echar mano de su voluntad".

Awe-inspiring, supernatural manifestations were about to happen—yet God waited until the prayer was prayed. As John Wesley so aptly stated: "God does nothing except in response to believing prayer."2

Your grandmother Sunja and great-aunt Kyunghee visit me on Saturdays. Did you know that? They pray for me, too. I don't understand the Jesus stuff, but it's something holy to have people touch you when you're sick. The nurses here are afraid to touch me. Your grandmother Sunja holds my hands, and your great-aunt Kyunghee puts cool towels on my head when I get too hot. They're kind to me, though I'm a bad person—

The big secret that he kept from his mother, aunt, and even his beloved uncle was that Noa did not believe in God anymore. God had allowed his gentle, kindhearted father to go to jail even though he had done nothing wrong. For two years, God had not answered Noa's prayers, though his father had promised him that God listens very carefully to the prayers of children.

Our lives will be strange at first, but we'll ask God for his blessing—on us and the child." Sunja imagined that his prayer would act like a thick cloak to shield them.

If you have never seen a flight attendant praying, I hope you never do, because it is one the scariest things in the whole world. Scarier

Maybe part of the problem is that you're not making enough time for reflection and solitude and prayer. Are you avoiding God, Joel? Are you trying to run from Him the way Shadow has run from us?" He

Their prayer was rage.