Quotes about Persistent Prayer
You have no idea when or how God will answer your prayers, but don't stop praying.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.
— Mark Batterson
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
— St. Augustine
Do not take your servant for a wicked woman; for all this time I have been praying out of the depth of my anguish and grief.”
— 1 Samuel 1:16
Again He went away and prayed, saying the same thing.
— Mark 14:39
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
— DL Moody
The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. It is the key to the whole mission problem. All human means are secondary.
— Samuel Marinus Zwemer
Ask, and it will be given to you; search and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. For the one who asks always receives; the one who searches always finds; the one who knocks will always have the door opened." —Matthew 7:7—8
— Fr. Richard Rohr
It is not enough to desire to pray; we must resolutely stay with it.
— Mike Bickle
The crowd admonished them to be silent, but they cried out all the louder, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
— Matthew 20:31
When God lays a burden on our hearts and thus keeps us praying, He obviously intends to grant the answer.
— J. Oswald Sanders