Quotes about Prayer
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
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
— E Stanley Jones
Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos
— Beth Moore
Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.
— AW Pink