Quotes about Prayer

I want God to be speaking louder than the music.

Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.

It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We don't do it as a callisthenic exercise to gain points with God; we do it, because it is good for us in every way.

Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

When man listens, God speaks; when man obeys, God acts; when man prays, God empowers.

Any man that is saved and sanctified can feel the fire burning in his heart, when he calls on the name of Jesus.

Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

Pray and read, read and pray; for a little from God is better than a great deal from men.

The more men pray, the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become. I am, of course, speaking of professing Christians at this point.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.