Quotes about Prayer
To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
— Corrie Ten Boom
Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
— Johannes Tauler
The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.
— DL Moody
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
— Dallas Willard
There is no promise too hard for God to fulfill. No prayer is too big for Him to answer!
— Christine Caine
If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.
— CS Lewis
Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .
— Timothy Keller
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
— John Bunyan
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
— Thomas Watson
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
— Mary Baker Eddy
God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
— Rick Warren
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
— Oswald Chambers