Quotes about Prayer
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.
— John Piper
Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.
— Scot McKnight
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.
— Billy Sunday
Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.
— St. Cyprian
The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
— John Wesley
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.
— Harold S. Kushner
I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.
— CS Lewis
The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.
— Gianna Beretta Molla
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
— John Stott
The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel