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Quotes About Prayer

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.
~ Jill Briscoe
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
~ J. C. Ryle
Pray as you can, not as you can't.
~ Johnny Appleseed
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
~ Margaret Mead
Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.
~ Athanasius of Alexandria
When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.
~ T. D. Jakes
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.
~ G. Campbell Morgan
Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.
~ Thomas Keating
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.
~ Chuck Smith
The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
~ Leonard Ravenhill
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare
~ William Shakespeare
Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
~ Oswald Chambers
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
~ Origen
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.
~ Saint John Chrysostom
We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.
~ Francis of Assisi
The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
~ Matthew Henry
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
~ Brother Lawrence
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
~ R. C. Sproul