Quotes about Prayer

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.

My mother had heard the story of Hannah and Samuel, so she prayed that if God would give her a son, she would give that son to God. That was a perfectly appropriate thing for her to do, but as I observe, she did not have to tell me she had made such a promise. In particular, she did not have to tell me when I was six.

I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, 'Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.' And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.

Jesus is not manufacturing a new idea for human relationships or the church. His prayer reflects what God's design has always been.

Mark 11:25 is talking about forgiveness as a heart attitude before God.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

Many people want 'God bless America,' but they don't want 'One nation under God.' The problem is you can't have one without the other.

Not Forgive us for our sins but Smite us for our iniquities should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with it. There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

O we are wearied of this sense of guilt, Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair, Wearied of every temple we have built, Wearied of every unanswered right, unanswered prayer, For man is weak; God sleeps: and heaven is high: One fiery-colored moment: one great love: and lo! we die.