Quotes about Prayer
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
— Oswald Chambers
We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.
— Pope John Paul II
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
— Evelyn Underhill
Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
— Ignatius of Loyola
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
— Catherine Marshall
Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.
— Martin Luther
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
— Philip James Bailey
I must exchange whispers with God before shouts with the world.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.
— John Bunyan