Quotes about Prayer
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
- E Stanley Jones
Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.
- Charles Spurgeon
Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.
- Charles Spurgeon
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.
- Charles Spurgeon
I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.
- Elie Wiesel
Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.
- Elizabeth George
The fewer the words the better the prayer.
- Martin Luther
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.
- Martin Luther
Tomorrow I plan to work work from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
- Martin Luther
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson