Quotes about Prayer
Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.
— Billy Graham
Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.
— Mary Baker Eddy
In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.
— Mary Anne Radmacher
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
— Wendell Berry
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.
— Evelyn Underhill
You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate prayer. I'd rather have one God idea than a thousand good ideas.
— Mark Batterson
Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
— Mark Batterson
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
— John Piper
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
— Oswald Chambers
The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.
— Watchman Nee
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.
— Mark Batterson