Quotes About Faith

Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit.

Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.

Whenever God is ready to do something new with His people, He always sets them to praying.

Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.

I never get out of bed in the morning without having communion with God in the Spirit.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.

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.

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

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.

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

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

Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.

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.