Prayer Quotes

If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits.

Have you ever said, “Well, all we can do now is pray”? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer. He is our support and our strength. He will help us make our way up again from whatever depths we have fallen.

The most eloquent prayer is often prayed through hands that heal and bless.

When we know Him, we can be sure God hears our prayers.

When troubles come may prayer be your automatic response.

We were created to live a life of prayer.

Someone has said, “Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.

Prayer is key to our effort to communicate the Gospel and win men and women to Christ.

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!

I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long.

If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".

Happiness is activity of soul.

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.

Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]

Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.

He (Lincoln) recognized the delicate balance between immanence and transcendence, refusing to settle for either of these alone. His was a God who was both in the world and above the world.

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.

Oh Lord of melons, of mercy, though I am not ready, nor worthy, I am climbing towards you.

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.

Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.("The Undying Thing")

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress.

We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha or a Sultan who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

The fewer the words the better the prayer.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.

The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.

Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

He that will learn to pray let him to sea.

Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day.

When life knocks you to your knees and it will why get up! If it knocks you to your knees again as it will well isn't that the best position from which to pray?

Now I am past all comforts here but prayer.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.

We must lay before him what is in us not what ought to be in us.

My words fly up my thoughts remain below Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Most people do not pray they only beg.

Thou who has given so much to me give one thing more: a grateful heart.

To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.

Bear up the hands that hang down by faith and prayer support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein and mercy will come down.