Prayer Quotes

In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

We don't pray to win. We pray to play the best we can, and to keep us free from injury. And the prayer we say after the game is one of thanksgiving.

The paintings are like prayers, relating to wishing for something beyond everyday 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 infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

Prayer can do anything that God can do.

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

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

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 especially crucial when you come to a place in your study where you are stuck and confused.

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.

The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything.

Prayer need not be a burdensome duty. It is meant to be a joyful and creative privilege.

I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded with light.

Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees.

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?

Fastings and vigils without a special object in view are time run to waste.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Go where your best prayers take you.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!

Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.

You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you’ve got one you’re trying to argue it away. People who don’t believe in miracles shouldn’t pray for them.

The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.

There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.

The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.

God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.

I have seen God do more in people's lives during ten minutes of real prayer than in ten of my sermons.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.

There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.

The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

The efficacy of a prayer depends not on the words but on the sincerity of intention.

The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray, yes, but also make sure that you do what is necessary in the world.

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

Never underestimate the power of a single prayer.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

Prayer is the means by which men communicate with God. Revelation is the means by which God communicates with men.

God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.