Quotes about Prayer
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
— AW Tozer
If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.
— Oswald Chambers
The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper.
— JC Ryle
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.
— Martin Luther
Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
— Henri Nouwen
In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.
— DL Moody
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
— Charles Spurgeon
A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
— John Owen
Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something.
— Dennis Prager
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
— Barbara Johnson
Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
— Hannah More
Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.
— John Ortberg