Prayer Quotes

"Evening, and morning, and at noon, will I pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear me."
Psalm 55:17

"Jesus answered. Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you will receive it, and it will be yours."
Mark 11:22, 24

"Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer."
John Bunyan

"Prayer is the acid test of devotion."
Samuel Chadwick

"Men give advice; God gives guidance."
Leonard Ravenhill

"A person without prayer is like a tree without roots."
Pope Pius XII

"The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver."
John Bunyan

"...a man who kneels before God will stand before men."
Leonard Ravenhill

"True prayer is a lonely business."
Samuel Chadwick

"Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it."
Oswald Chambers

"In all your prayers forget not to thank the Lord for his mercies."
John Bunyan

"The only power that God will yield to is that of prayer."
Leonard Ravenhill

"Seven days without prayer makes one weak."
Allen E Vartlett

"he that is never on his knees on earth, shall never stand upon his feet in heaven."
C. H. Spurgeon

"If weak in prayer, we are weak everywhere."
Leonard Ravenhill

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work."
Oswald Chambers

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
John Bunyan

"The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer."
Alexander Whyte

"A sinning man stops praying, a praying man stops sinning."
Leonard Ravenhill

"He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day."
John Bunyan

"If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it: get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again."
C. H. Spurgeon

"I live in the spirit of prayer; I pray as I walk, when I lie down and when I rise, and the answers are always coming."
George Mueller

"Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude—an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God."
Arthur W. Pink

"Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent." Leonard Ravenhill

"No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life."
Leonard Ravenhill

"Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God. and a scourge for Satan."
John Bunyan

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."
Oswald Chambers

"Heaven is full of answers to prayers for which no one ever bothered to ask."
Billy Graham

"Prayer is the spiritual gymnasium in which we exercise and practice Godliness."
VL Crawford

"See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do."
Oswald Chambers

"You can do more than pray after you've prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed."
John Bunyan

"He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has heaven and earth at his disposal."
C. S. Spurgeon

"Nothing you can do will benefit you more than prayer."
Paul Y. Cho

"A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet."
E. M. Bounds

"In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer."
John Wesley

"The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience."
O. Hallesby

"I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them."
Alexander Whyte

"Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer."
Fenelon

"Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him."
John Wesley

"People can't see your root system, but God can. Praying and meditating on the Word of God will cause your roots to go down deep into His love."
Warren Wiersbe

"Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer."
Charles Finney

"He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else."
E.M.Bounds

"Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine."
Andrew Murray

"Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing."
E. M. Bounds

"True prayer is measured by weight,-not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length."
C. H. Spurgeon

"Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."
Charles Stanley

"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me." Billy Graham

"Prayer is not a hard requirement- it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality." C. H. Spurgeon

"And there you have the reason why many people pray for the power of the Holy Ghost, and they get something, but oh, so little! because they prayed for power for work, and power for blessing, but they have not prayed for power for full deliverance from self."
Andrew Murray

"If you take care of yourself and walk with integrity, you may be confident that God will deal with those who sin against you. Above all, don't give birth to sin yourself; rather, pray for those who persecute you. God will one day turn your persecution into praise."
Warren Wiersbe

"Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray--feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus."
Mother Teresa

"The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time to pray."
S.D. Gordon

"I invite you to bow your head and quietly whisper the prayer that will change your eternity: Jesus I believe in you and I receive you."
Rick Warren