Quotes about Prayer

Andre Trocmé, who pastored the remarkable Le Chambon community during World War II, said, "Nonviolence was not a theory superimposed upon reality; it was an itinerary that we explored day after day in communal prayer and in obedience to the commands of the Spirit.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.

Pastors need to find their place in the community of believers by spending time with God.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

I firmly believe in prayer. It is possible to reach out and tap the unseen power which gives strength and anchor in time of need.

We used to hate and destroy one another and refused to associate with people of another race or country. Now, because of Christ, we live together with such people and pray for our enemies.

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

There is no more beautiful sight in all this world than to see a family praying together. There is real meaning behind the oft-quoted 'The family that prays together stays together.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.