Quotes about Prayer
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
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
— Ann Voskamp
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?
— Jim Cymbala
Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.
— Paul Washer
If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.
— John Owen