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Quotes About Faith

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.
~ Angus Buchan
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Prayer succeeds when all else fails
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.
~ Voltaire
A coward cannot have any prayer answered.
~ Nichiren
God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.
~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.
~ Bill Bright
The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.
~ Maya Angelou
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
~ Saint Augustine
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
~ J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer
Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
~ G.I. Gurdjieff
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.
~ Martin Luther
Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
~ David Wolpe
The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.
~ T. S. Eliot
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
~ J. C. Ryle
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.
~ Thomas Brooks
God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.
~ Girolamo Savonarola
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
~ E. Stanley Jones
Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God
~ Mother Teresa