Quotes about Prayer
The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.
— Leonard Ravenhill
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
— Teresa of Avila
No man is greater than his prayer life.
— Leonard Ravenhill
If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
— Martin Luther
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.
— Amy Carmichael
Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.
— Julian of Norwich
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
— Madeleine L'Engle
With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
— Dorothy Day
He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.
— Charles Spurgeon
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
— Corrie Ten Boom
The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.
— Andrew Murray