Quotes About Prayer

Prayer is preoccupation with our needs. Praise is preoccupation with our blessings. Worship is preoccupation with GOD Himself.

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

No man is greater than his prayer life.

If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.

And when you can't do nothing else - pray.

Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.

It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

I'll like to tell all the people who wrote me and said a prayer for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.