Quotes about Prayer
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
— JC Ryle
Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.
— DL Moody
Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
— Thomas Merton
God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.
— Jurgen Moltmann
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
— John Wesley
The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
— Leonard Ravenhill
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
— Brother Lawrence
Prayer that runs its course till the last day of life needs a strong and tranquil soul.
— Clement of Alexandria
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
— John of the Cross
Prayer does not change God; it changes me.
— CS Lewis
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson