Quotes about Prayer
So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
— Luke 11:9
For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
— Luke 11:10
The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith!”
— Luke 17:5
and raised their voices, shouting, “Jesus, Master, have mercy on us!”
— Luke 17:13
Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray at all times and not lose heart:
— Luke 18:1
And there was a widow in that town who kept appealing to him, ‘Give me justice against my adversary.’
— Luke 18:3
yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Then she will stop wearing me out with her perpetual requests.’”
— Luke 18:5
And the Lord said, “Listen to the words of the unjust judge.
— Luke 18:6
Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He continue to defer their help?
— Luke 18:7
“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
— Luke 18:10
The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like the other men—swindlers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.
— Luke 18:11
But the tax collector stood at a distance, unwilling even to lift up his eyes to heaven. Instead, he beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner!’
— Luke 18:13