Quotes About Prayer

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

Prayer is not trying to twist God's arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times!

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.