Quotes about Prayer
If God gave us everything we asked for, we'd be in chaos.
— Robin Jones Gunn
Every Christian has unique opportunities to engage the most pressing social issues of our day by praying, proclaiming the gospel, and participating with God in all that he is doing in the world.
— David Platt
The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I come from a very religious background. And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.
— Elie Wiesel
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!
— Ellen Glasgow
Think of God more often than you breathe.
— Epictetus
Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.
— Francis Chan
Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?
— Frederick Buechner
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.
— Frederick Douglass
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
— Henri Nouwen
It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
— Henri Nouwen
Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.
— Henri Nouwen