Quotes about Prayer
May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.
— Pope Francis
The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.
— Pope Francis
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.
— Mother Teresa
Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.
— JI Packer
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
— JC Ryle
In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.
— Mother Teresa
If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.
— Bill Hybels
A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
— DA Carson
Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch.
— Mother Teresa
We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
— George Eliot
Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.
— John Piper