Quotes About Prayer

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.