Quotes about Prayer
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
Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.
— David Jeremiah
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
— AW Pink
He who kneels the most, stands the best.
— DL Moody
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.
— Max Lucado
Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.
— Charles Finney
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
— John Bunyan