Quotes about Prayer
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
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