Quotes about Prayer
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
— Origen
You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.
— St. John Chrysostom
Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.
— RC Sproul
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.
— James Hayford
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
— Dallas Willard
It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.
— Charles Spurgeon
If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.
— William Carey
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.
— RC Sproul
True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.
— Billy Graham