Quotes about Prayer
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.
— Henry Blackaby
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.
— Henry Blackaby
Ask God to make you like Christ so that, even when you are being persecuted, you can pray, "Father, forgive them.
— Henry Blackaby
He offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed kneeling and praying at the bottom of the sea.
— Herman Melville
We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
— Oswald Chambers
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.
— St. Isidore of Seville
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
— Martin Luther
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."
— Charles Stanley
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.
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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.
— Alistair Begg
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
— Kathleen Norris
Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.
— Rick Warren