Quotes about God
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
— John Bunyan
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
— AW Pink
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.
— Max Lucado
Pray, and let God worry.
— Martin Luther
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
— Anselm of Canterbury
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.
— Martin Luther
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
— John Bunyan
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
— John Knox
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
— Oswald Chambers
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.
— John Calvin
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.
— Huldrych Zwingli
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.
— Walter Brueggemann