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Quotes About Prayer

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.
~ Francis Chan
Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?
~ Frederick Buechner
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
~ Frederick Douglass
Cry to god. If you do that just for a couple minutes with your whole being, just like a child who so badly wants a cookie. You will break through the barrier of the mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
This is the spirit of prayer--sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require--God will not accept.
~ Gardiner Spring
Even as a very small child I used to talk to God.
~ Gloria Gaynor
God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.
~ Harold Lindsell
All I really want - when I pray , I don't really ask for anything. All I want to do is God's will and make the best decisions I can. I don't go out and preach.
~ Harry Connick, Jr.
My husband, children, and my family are my biggest supporters. I just pray to God to keep my family and I aligned at all times, and I just remember where it all got started before show business.
~ Heather Headley
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
~ Henri Nouwen
It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
~ Henri Nouwen
Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.
~ Henri Nouwen
What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.
~ Henry Wotton
There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.
~ J. C. Watts
I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
~ Jackie Evancho
Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.
~ James M. Barrie
I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!
~ Jan Karon
The nearest I'd come to feeling anything like God was the plan blue cloudless sky and a certain silence, but how do you pray to that?
~ Janet Fitch
Pray to your God, open your heart. Whatever you do, don't be afraid of the dark.
~ Jared Leto
Their throats were bare for God.
~ Jeanette Winterson
I do not believe that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew
~ Jerry Falwell
O God, split the heavens and come down! Manifest yourself somehow. Do what only you can do.
~ Jim Cymbala
I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.
~ Jim Hamilton