Quotes about Prayer
The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.
- Anonymous
God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.
- Anonymous
Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.
- John Newton
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.
- Adoniram Judson
Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.
- Anonymous
When you go to your knees God will help you stand up to anything.
- Anonymous
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
- Oswald Chambers
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.
- Oswald Chambers
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God and that alters my view of actual things.
- Oswald Chambers
Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
- Andrew Murray
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
- Oswald Chambers