Prayer Quotes

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.

Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.

In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness: forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude... the absence of profound thankfulness.

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

The works of God are great mysteries and may truly always be hidden from us, however it is not wrong to lead your own personal enquiry through your prayers to the Lord.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.

Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny.

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.

God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

Each activity of daily life in which we stretch ourselves on behalf of others is a prayer in action.

with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.

God loves it when His children pray BIG, BOLD PRAYERS. Don't be afraid to ask your Father for anything!

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

Habits of prayer need careful cultivation.

What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer, we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God, not of the answer.

Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.

All prayers are answered. We need to distinguish between a prayer unanswered, and one not answered how or when we would like it to be.

When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.

Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

Prayer is an attitude of the heart.

Prayer is not just something on our to-do list; it's the breath of our soul.

Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and the tumult of a thousand men.

Prayer, even more than eating or sleeping, is not a luxury but a necessity, and we are only fully human when we remember this and arrange our life accordingly.

I don't know what heavy penance could have come to mind that frequently I would not have gladly undertaken rather than recollect myself in the practice of prayer.

You will always receive help within a second of a prayer. To recognize the help, you must see everything in your life from that second on as a part of the answer to your prayer.