Quotes about Prayer

He wants His children to link the world to the throne of God through intercession.

We know why: He who prays is our Head and our Life. All He has is ours and is given to us when we give ourselves all to Him. By His blood, He leads us into the immediate presence of God. The inner sanctuary is our home where we dwell. And He that lives near God and knows that He has been brought near to bless those who are far away cannot but pray.

The knowledge of the fatherhood of God, the revelation of His infinite fatherliness in our hearts, and the faith in the infinite love that gives us His Son and His Spirit to make us children is indeed the secret of prayer in spirit and truth. Christ opened this new and living way for us.

He tells you that when you go to private prayer, your first thought must be: Thy Father who is in secret; the Father waits for me there.

Paul felt deeply for the unity of the body of Christ. He was convinced that unity could only be reached by the exercise of love and prayer.

In this way our Lord teaches us that with infinite fatherliness and faithfulness is how God meets us in secret, so our part should be the childlike simplicity of faith with the confidence that our prayer will bring a blessing.

Oh! take time, to get very low before God.

The blessing of the closet does not depend on the strong or the fervent feeling with which I pray, but upon the love and the power of the Father to whom I entrust my needs.

But, oh! we are far more occupied with our work than we are with prayer. We believe more in speaking to men than we believe in speaking to God.

Yes, let us most joyfully say, ignorant and feeble though we be, 'Lord, teach us to pray.

It is as we daily hear God's call, and put [intercessory prayer] into practice, that the consciousness will begin to live in us, that we too, are intercessors; and that we shall feel the need of living in Christ and being full of the Spirit if we are to do the work of the intercession aright. Nothing will so test and stimulate the Christian life as the honest attempt to be an intercessor.

Nothing will so test and stimulate the Christian life as the honest attempt to be an intercessor.