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Quotes About Intercession

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
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
Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
~ Oswald Chambers
Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.
~ John Wesley
The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
~ Thomas Watson
Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.
~ Ole Hallesby
Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.
~ Adrian Rogers
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.
~ John Henry Jowett
God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.
~ Arthur Tappan Pierson
God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.
~ John Piper
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
~ C. S. Lewis
The #1 key to spiritual warfare is prayer.
~ Jacob Peterson
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
~ Dwight L. Moody
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
~ John Stott
A wife's prayers for her husband have a far greater effect on him than anyone else's, even his mother's. (Sorry, Mom.)
~ Stormie Omartian
Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.
~ Charles Bent
The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job training' in overcoming the forces hostile to God.
~ Paul Billheimer
Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.
~ Paul Billheimer
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
~ A. B. Simpson
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.
~ Mark Driscoll