Prayer Quotes

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the hear...

The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shu...

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

Give me the Love that leads the wayThe Faith that nothing can dismayThe Hope no disappointments tire...

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: p...

We knew our Father. There was no need for persuasion. Would not His Fatherliness be longing to give ...

And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,Until it be according unto mine?But, no, Lord, no, ...

There is no hope but in prayer.

Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Tha...

Abiding fully means praying much.

While others still slept He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Fathe...

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the b...

Do not strive in your own strength cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus and wait upon Him i...

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipot...

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can ...

When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. ...

Nowhere can we get to know the holiness of God and come under His influence and power except in th...

What is the reason that many thousands of Christian workers in the world have not a greater influenc...

Let it be your business every day in the secrecy of the inner chamber to meet the holy God. You wi...

Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done t...

If there is one thought with regard to the Church of Christ, which at times comes to me with overwhe...

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condi...

The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with ...

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined ...

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone....

That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not...

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank y...

My belief is that when you're telling the truth, you're close to God. If you say to God, "I am exhau...

If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there... When n...

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, "I hate you, God." That is ...

These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very ...

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After ye...

The Amen is only as good as the attitude. If you are trying to finish up quickly so you can check yo...

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we de...

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the mes...

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in s...

Prayer usually means praise, or surrender, acknowledging that you have run out of bullets.

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer?

Last year I had a very unusual experience. I was awake, with my eyes closed, when I had a dream. It ...

In the forty minutes I watched the muskrat, he never saw me, smelled me, or heard me at all. When he...

Today is the winter solstice. The planet tilts just so to its star, lists and holds circling in a fi...

The color-patches of vision part, shift, and reform as I move through space in time. The present is ...

All at once, something wonderful happened, although at first, it seemed perfectly ordinary. A female...

I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people eve...

A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any s...

Xerxes, I read, ‘halted his unwieldy army for days that he might contemplate to his satisfaction’ th...

And under the cicadas, deeper down that the longest taproot, between and beneath the rounded black r...

The secret of seeing is, then the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it an...

Say you could view a time-lapse film of our planet: what would you see? Transparent images moving th...

I want to think about trees. Trees have a curious relationship to the subject of the present moment....

You are God. You want to make a forest, something to hold the soil, lock up energy, and give off oxy...

Shadow is the blue patch where the light doesn’t hit. It is mystery itself, and mystery is the ancie...

I was in no tent under leaves, sleepless and glad. There was no moon at all; along the world’s coast...

It looked as though the leaves of the autumn forest had taken flight, and were pouring down the vall...

Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. T...

Were the earth as smooth as a ball bearing, it might be beautiful seen from another planet, as the r...

Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. The surface of mystery is not smooth, any mor...

I am sitting here, you are sitting there. Say even that you are sitting across the kitchen table fro...

I think that the dying pray at the last not "please," but "thank you," as a guest thanks his host at...

Happiness is activity of soul.

So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they'll send rain and good crops and th...

So you make this deal with the gods. You do these dances and they'll send rain and good crops and th...

You can curse the dead or pray for them, but don't expect them to do a thing for you. They're far to...

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Pray when you're alone. Pray when you're with a lot of people. Pray when you're in small groups. Pra...

Prayer is the companion of Bible study.

God Himself is the power that makes prayer work.

The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to J...

I believe we should pray that God will take possession of our lives totally and completely. We shoul...

Pray frequently as you read [the Bible] and you will discover a fellowship with God.

A prayerless Christian is a powerless Christian.

If we are to have our prayers answered, we must give God the glory.

Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than th...

Those you know the least may need your prayers the most. Don’t let the fact that you don’t know some...

No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying.

[Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in pray...

Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God’...

To the Son of God prayer was more important than the assembling of great throngs . . . He often with...

Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer.

The reason many . . . close their eyes while praying is to shut out the affairs of the world so that...

At its deepest level, prayer is fellowship with God: enjoying His company, waiting upon His will, th...

The Book of Psalms is the Bible’s hymnbook. It will show you what it means to walk with God in praye...

We are to pray in times of adversity, lest we become faithless and unbelieving. We are to pray in ti...

If [Jesus] felt that He had to pray, how much more do we need to pray!

The devil will tremble when you pray.

Our prayers must be in accordance with [God’s] will. He knows better what is good for us than we kno...

Nothing will drive us to our knees quicker than trouble.

It is not the posture of the body, but the attitude of the heart that counts when we pray . . . The ...

Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God’s orders.

Prayer is the Christian’s greatest weapon.

This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark an...

Our prayers must be in accordance with the will of God for the simple reason that God knows better w...

Prayer is more than a plea, it is a place where we must spend time if we are to learn its power.

You cannot afford to be too busy to pray.

As I close my eyes in prayer, let me see the faces of those who need to know You, beloved Savior.