Quotes about Prayer

If God wants to give you more than you are asking, would you rather have what you are asking or what God wants to give?

The Father said no, despite the unfathomable love He had for His Son, because He knew He could not spare His Son and save a world. Likewise, the Lord cannot always spare you and your family and complete His redemptive work in those around you. Are you willing for God to deny your pleadings? Will you intercede with the Father so deeply and intimately that even in the midst of your tears you are able to say, "Nevertheless, not my will but thine be done"?

When you want to know how God wants you to reach your city, start a new church, or be involved in His work, ask Him. Then when He tells you, don't be surprised if you can't find any church that is doing it the same way.

God can use the words of a teenager, the prayer of a senior citizen, or the candid remark of a child to convict you of the need to make changes in your life.

Ask God to make you like Christ so that, even when you are being persecuted, you can pray, "Father, forgive them.

He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.

If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.