Quotes about Prayer
I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.
— DL Moody
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
— Soren Kierkegaard
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
— John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
— John Bunyan
He prays best who does not know that he is praying.
— St. Anthony of Padua
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
— Corrie Ten Boom
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.
— George Muller
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.
— DL Moody
We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.
— St. Anthony of Padua
Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.
— Leonard Ravenhill
A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel