Quotes About Prayer

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.

If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.