Prayer Quotes

There is no need to get to a place of prayer pray wherever you are.

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

Prayer to the patriarchs and prophets was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

Without the incense of heartfelt prayer even the greatest of cathedrals is dead.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely lovingly confidently and simply as your heart dictates.

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy falsehood and deceit.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly but it is slowly learnt by heart.

God hears no more than the heart speaks and if the heart be dumb God will certainly be dumb.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Many pray with their lips for that for which their hearts have no desire.

God may turn his ears from prattling prayers or preaching prayers but never from penitent believing prayers.

Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag the other to pray.

God's ear lies close to the believer's lip.

Do not pray by heart but with the heart.

God eagerly awaits the chance to bless the person whose heart is turned toward Him.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature but your cry if it be sincere is the result of a work of grace in your heart.

Every time you pray if your prayer is sincere there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage and you will understand that prayer is an education.

When you pray rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life for all things else being equal our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

And help us this and every day to live more nearly as we pray.

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

None can pray well but he that lives well.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands but he cannot lift up his face.

We pray pious blether our will is not in it and then we say God does not answer we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Our praying to be strong must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

Search me O God and know my heart: try me and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me.

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ then we pray correctly.

If we would have God in the closet God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God but by living to God.

Be not hot in prayer and cold in praise.

Though smooth be the heartless prayer no ear in heaven will mind it And the finest phrase falls dead if there is no feeling behind it.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire.

Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness not the definition of helplessness but the feeling of it not figures of speech but earnestness of soul.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate and when they are inarticulate reverence grows deeper and deeper.

We cannot all argue but we can all pray we cannot all be leaders but we can all be pleaders we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric but we can all be prevalent in prayer.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity speak to Him frankly and plainly and implore His assistance in our affairs.

Prayer is not artful monologue Of voice uplifted from the son It is Love's tender dialogue Between the soul and God.

Our groanings which cannot be uttered rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.

Productive prayer requires earnestness not eloquence.

In prayer more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Prayer should be short without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best what is good for us.

God is in heaven and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Many words do not a good prayer make what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God and the faith to back it up.

A little lifting of the heart suffices a little remembrance of God one act of inward worship are prayers which however short are nevertheless acceptable to God.

Short prayers pierceth Heaven.

You are coming to a King Large petitions with you bring For his grace and power are such None can ever ask too much.

There is no sinner in the world however much at enmity with God who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary and by asking her assistance.

Most Christians expect little from God ask little and therefore receive little and are content with little.