Quotes about Prayer
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
— David Brainerd
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.
— Charles Finney
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.
— John Knox
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
— Karl Barth
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.
— William Carey
I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter's vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.
— Huldrych Zwingli
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
— John Stott
If we do not abide in prayer, we will abide in temptation.
— John Owen
Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.
— George Muller
We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.
— Oswald Chambers