Prayer Quotes

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not.

You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

Begin to live as though your prayers are already answered.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.

I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Prayers truly from the heart open all doors in Heaven.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something

Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

Alone-in moments of prayer or meditation, or simply in stillness-we breathe more deeply, see more fully, hear more keenly. We notice more, and in the process, we return to what is sacred.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer.

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.

We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines.

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.

The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening.

We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario.

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying.

What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.

Prayer is happy company with God.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray.

Three principles of prayer: 1. Keep it honest. 2. Keep it simple. 3. Keep it up.

Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.

No power on earth compares to a mother's tender prayers.

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater than ourselves

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

Are you living for the things you are praying for?

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

To stand before men on behalf of God is one thing. To stand before God on behalf of men is something entirely different.

If you take missions out of the Bible, you won't have anything left but the covers.