Prayer Quotes

We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.

He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.

All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.

If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.

We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed.

When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.

For the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open to their prayer. But the face of the Lord is against those that do evil.

We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

Prayer is where the action is.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

I would rather die now than to live a life of oblivious ease in so sick a world.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.

Good morning, this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.