Quotes About Prayer

Is the Son of God praying in me, bringing honor to the Father, or am I dictating my demands to Him?

As a saved soul, the real business of your life is intercessory prayer.

O Lord, my Lord, I come to Thee this morning with a sense of spiritual failure. Cleanse me by Thy grace and restore me to the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. O that the sweet kindness of Jesus were more and more manifest in me.

Lord, the range of Thy power, the touch of Thy grace, the breathing of Thy Spirit, how I long for these to bring me face to face with Thee; Lord, by Thy grace cause me to appear before Thee.

Prayer is an effort of the will. After we have entered our secret place and shut the door, the most difficult thing to do is to pray. We cannot seem to get our minds into good working order, and the first thing we have to fight is wandering thoughts. The great battle in private prayer is overcoming this problem of our idle and wandering thinking. We have to learn to discipline our minds and concentrate on willful, deliberate prayer.

It is ridiculous to ask God to do this." If it is an impossibility, it is the very thing for which we have to ask. If it is not an impossible thing, it is not a real disturbance. And God will do what is absolutely impossible.

Prayer is not a matter of changing things externally, but one of working miracles in a person's inner nature.

Once we lose sight of God, we begin to be reckless. We cast off certain restraints from activities we know are wrong. We set prayer aside as well and cease having God's vision in the little things of life. We simply begin to act on our own initiative. If we are eating only out of our own hand, and doing things solely on our own initiative without expecting God to come in, we are on a downward path.

As a saved soul, the real business of your life is intercessory prayer. Whatever circumstances God may place you in, always pray immediately that His atonement may be recognized and as fully understood in the lives of others as it has been in yours. Pray for your friends now, and pray for those with whom you come in contact now.

O Lord, I would seek Thy face now, but what avail is my seeking if Thou revealest not Thyself? Show me Thy face, O Lord. Keep me ever seeing Thee.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all. Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

True intercession involves bringing the person, or the circumstance that seems to be crashing in on you, before God, until you are changed by His attitude toward that person or circumstance. People describe intercession by saying, "It is putting yourself in someone else's place." That is not true! Intercession is putting yourself in God's place; it is having His mind and His perspective.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards. --"Wanda

God speaks to those who take time to listen, and He listens to those who take time to pray.

"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.

We touch the last reality directly in prayer.

The time has arrived for the meal to begin, so you dash to your chair with a flair and a grin. And the hot giblet gravy brings loud "oohs" and "ahs," but the sight of the turkey draws a round of applause. Then all heads are lowered, as you join in a prayer, giving thanks for your blessings and the gifts waiting there. And with grace at an end, you whisper, "Amen.

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver; therefore we go into action.

En lugar del padre nuestro, los ateos del D.F. amanecemos con la retahíla de: sálvame mano de esta pinche cloaca en que me metiste, protégeme de la bola de ojetes que quieren acabar con nosotros, sálvame de la ley y sus guardianes.

Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.