Quotes About Faith

When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

It is necessary to rouse the heart to pray, otherwise it will become quite dry. The attributes of prayer must be: love of God, sincerity, and simplicity.

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer.

Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance.

Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ