Prayer Quotes

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

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.

You want to make a big bold difference in this world? Then pray big, bold prayers.

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

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

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

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.

The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.

The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.

For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Learning to be silent is far more difficult and far more important than learning to recite prayers.

By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you rob God of His glory and Christ of His sufficiency.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

The devil is not terribly frightened of our human efforts and credentials. But he knows his kingdom will be damaged when we begin to lift up our hearts to God.

The #1 key to spiritual warfare is prayer.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

My prayers are just an outpouring of gratitude for the assurance of that most completely desired Will of God, which will seem all the more desirable in all that is ahead.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

Prayer is a shield to the soul

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

Walking with God down the avenue of prayer we acquire something of His likeness, and unconsciously we become witnesses to others of His beauty and His grace.

Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Prayer can do anything that God can do.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday life.

Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer.

Our earnest prayer is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness, and peace to all our neighbors, and like blessings to all the peoples and powers of the earth

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.