Quotes about Prayer
If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.
— John Wesley
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.
— Thomas Merton
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
— Mother Teresa
The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!
— Francis de Sales
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
— DL Moody
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
— Peter Kreeft
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
— DL Moody
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
— Anne Lamott
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
— JC Ryle
Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.
— Teresa of Avila
A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.
— DL Moody