Quotes about Prayer
You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.
— George Whitefield
Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.
— Corrie Ten Boom
No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.
— Pope Leo I
Anything, and I mean anything, becomes a blessing if it drives us to prayer.
— Jim Cymbala
The secret of praying is praying in secret.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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