Quotes about Prayer
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
— Margaret Mead
Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.
— Athanasius of Alexandria
When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving, toiling everywhere and everywhen for that ultimate victory.
— G Campbell Morgan
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
— Eugene Peterson
The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.
— Chuck Smith
The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!
— Leonard Ravenhill
Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.
— Charles Spurgeon
The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.
— Leonard Ravenhill
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
— Oswald Chambers