Quotes about Prayer
If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.
— Wayne Grudem
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
— Abraham Lincoln
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
— Bob Goff
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
— Leonard Ravenhill
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
— DA Carson
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.
— Charles Spurgeon
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
— St. Augustine
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
— AW Tozer
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
— JC Ryle
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.
— Martin Luther
God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.
— Girolamo Savonarola