Prayer Quotes

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

It’s important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don’t ask, you won’t know.

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

The best weapons of a Jew are his prayers.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.

Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.

An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.

In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus.

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.

Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.

Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Each moment spent in prayer is like a coin put into a bank account.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.

Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.

Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

I believe God always listens to our prayers.

To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

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.