Quotes About Prayer

And again Jesus returned and found them sleeping—for their eyes were heavy. And they did not know what to answer Him.

When Jesus returned the third time, He said, “Are you still sleeping and resting? That is enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

And at the hour of the incense offering, the whole congregation was praying outside.

But the angel said to him, “Do not be afraid, Zechariah, because your prayer has been heard. Your wife Elizabeth will bear you a son, and you are to give him the name John.

and then was a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.

When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as He was praying, heaven was opened,

At daybreak, Jesus went out to a solitary place, and the crowds were looking for Him. They came to Him and tried to keep Him from leaving.

Yet He frequently withdrew to the wilderness to pray.

Then they said to Him, “Johnís disciples and those of the Pharisees frequently fast and pray, but Yours keep on eating and drinking.”

In those days Jesus went out to the mountain to pray, and He spent the night in prayer to God.

bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.

One day as Jesus was praying in private and the disciples were with Him, He questioned them: “Who do the crowds say I am?”

About eight days after Jesus had said these things, He took with Him Peter, John, and James, and went up on a mountain to pray.

And as He was praying, the appearance of His face changed, and His clothes became radiantly white.

I begged Your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable.”

And He told them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.

One day in a place where Jesus had just finished praying, one of His disciples requested, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.”

So Jesus told them, “When you pray, say: ëFather, hallowed be Your name. Your kingdom come.

Give us each day our daily bread.

Then Jesus said to them, “Suppose one of you goes to his friend at midnight and says, ëFriend, lend me three loaves of bread,

I tell you, even though he will not get up to provide for him because of his friendship, yet because of the manís persistence, he will get up and give him as much as he needs.

So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”