Quotes about Prayer
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
- Timothy Keller
Purity is the fruit of prayer.
- Mother Teresa
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
- JC Ryle
Make sickness itself a prayer.
- Francis de Sales
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
- Dante Alighieri
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
- St. Augustine
Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.
- Andy Stanley
What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.
- Charles Spurgeon
God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.
- Anne Graham Lotz
As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.
- Victor Hugo
Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.
- Joyce Meyer