Quotes About Prayer

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

Prayer is happy company with God.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

Train. Say your prayers. Eat your vitamins.

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.

I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.

Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.

Who one believes God to be is most accurately revealed not in any credo but in the way one speaks to God when no one else is listening.

We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.

God isn't offended by your biggest dreams or boldest prayers. He is offended by anything less. If your prayers aren't impossible to you, they are insulting to God.