Quotes about Prayer
He who avoids prayer is avoiding everything that is good.
— John of the Cross
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
— DA Carson
There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means.
— Chuck Smith
We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
— John Calvin
If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.
— Huldrych Zwingli
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.
— Andrew Murray
We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
— Walter Brueggemann
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
— Mother Teresa
When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.
— Philip Yancey
When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything. My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.
— Hudson Taylor
Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.
— John of the Cross