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Quotes About Faith

Go where your best prayers take you.
~ Frederick Buechner
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
~ Oswald Chambers
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
~ E. Stanley Jones
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
~ E. M. Bounds
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o'er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Day by day, dear Lord, of thee three things I pray: to see thee more clearly, love thee more dearly, follow thee more nearly, day by day.
~ Richard of Chichester
No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.
~ Paulo Coelho
The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.
~ Bret Harte
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
~ J. C. Ryle
The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.
~ Umar
God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way.
~ Johannes Tauler
I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.
~ Mary Karr
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
~ John Wesley
The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
~ Robbie Robertson
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
~ Brother Lawrence
Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.
~ Clement of Alexandria
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
~ John of the Cross
Prayer does not change God; it changes me.
~ C. S. Lewis