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Quotes About Prayer

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.
~ Jack W. Hayford
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
~ Dallas Willard
I you're in prayer, take care of your heart. If you're eating, take cre of your throat. If you're in another man's house, take care of your eyes. If you among people, take care of your tongue.
~ Luqman
It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.
~ Charles Spurgeon
The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.
~ Pope Paul VI
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
~ William Carey
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
~ R. C. Sproul
The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
~ Frank Laubach
True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.
~ Billy Graham
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.
~ Andrew Murray
Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.
~ Chuck Smith
Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
~ John Bunyan
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
~ Cokie Roberts
Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.
~ Henry Blackaby
No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
~ J. C. Ryle
A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.
~ Cyprian
Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.
~ T. D. Jakes