Quotes about Prayer
M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.
— Samuel Rutherford
Pray for your adversaries; remember how many thousands of talents of sins your Master hath forgiven you. Forgive you, therefore, your fellow-servant's one talent.
— Samuel Rutherford
God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have all the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you.
— Samuel Rutherford
I pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change God - it changes me.
— CS Lewis
Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
— Oswald Chambers
They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.
— Watchman Nee
By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
— John Newton
My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
— Billy Graham
If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.
— Max Lucado
The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
— RC Sproul
Many times the rewards of fasting come after the fast, though from time to time answers can come during the fast.
— Jentezen Franklin