Quotes about Prayer
Make no decision without prayer!
- Elizabeth George
Sometimes God's way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.
- Elizabeth George
When we accept God's invitation to commune with Him through prayer, He will transform our hearts and change our lives.
- Elizabeth George
More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voiceRise like a fountain for me night and day.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
- Alice Walker
Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.
- Alistair Begg
Prayer loosens the grip of envy on our hearts.
- Alistair Begg
When we follow Jesus' example and pray like this, one of the things we are asking is that God's sovereign rule might increasingly be established in our hearts and lives.
- Alistair Begg
Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.
- Alphonsus Liguori
America, we need to pray and lead from our spirits and not our emotions - and definitely not with our weapons.
- Alveda King
Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
- Ellen White
A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His Majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so.
- Teresa of Avila