Prayer Quotes

True prayer is a lonely business.

The body is my temple, asanas are my prayers.

God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning.

Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.

You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.

The happy heart runs with the river, floats on the air, lifts to the music, soars with the eagle, hopes with the prayer.

Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him.

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the Soul . . .

Prayer succeeds when all else fails

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

A coward cannot have any prayer answered.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.

Wish' is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.

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.

God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.

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

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos

Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief.

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

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

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.

To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.

The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.