Quotes about Prayer
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
— Teresa of Avila
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
— Anne Lamott
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
— John Ortberg
If we do not feel like praying, then we should pray until we do feel like praying.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
— Charles Spurgeon
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
— Charles Spurgeon
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
— Oswald Chambers
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
— Thomas Merton
It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.
— John Piper
When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves.
— AW Tozer
A man is powerful on his knees.
— Corrie Ten Boom