Quotes about Prayer
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance.
— John Owen
Even our hardest prayers are easy for the Omnipotent One to answer because there is no degree of difficulty.
— Mark Batterson
God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.
— Charles Spurgeon
To pray well is the better half of study.
— Martin Luther
Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.
— AW Pink
Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
— Shane Claiborne
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
— Thomas Merton
God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.
— David Brainerd
Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
— Thomas Merton
Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.
— Alistair Begg
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
— E Stanley Jones
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
— Elie Wiesel