Quotes about Prayer
If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.
— Wayne Dyer
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.
— Timothy Keller
Let the fires go out in the boiler room of the church and the place will still look smart and clean, but it will be cold. The Prayer Room is the boiler room for its spiritual life.
— Leonard Ravenhill
A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.
— Thomas Watson
The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.
— George Muller
Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.
— Henri Nouwen
One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.
— Charles Spurgeon
As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.
— Hudson Taylor
We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.
— Teresa of Avila
I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.
— Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria
The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.
— AW Tozer