Quotes About God

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.

The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.

If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.

All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

Prayer is not trying to twist God's arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.

There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.