Quotes about Prayer
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
— Johannes Tauler
Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
— AW Tozer
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
— Martin Luther
Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.
— Lynn Austin
What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!
— St. Augustine
Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."
— Rick Warren
Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.
— David Jeremiah
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
— Ann Voskamp
I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.
— Ronald Reagan
Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
— JI Packer
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
— Andrew Murray