Quotes About Prayer

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.

Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.

We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God

Pray, and let God worry.

He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.