Prayer Quotes

Best Prayer Quotes

“When you can’t put your prayer into words, God hears your heart.” – Anonymous

“Don’t think of the things you didn’t get after praying. Think of the countless blessings God gave you without asking.” – Anonymous

"Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference." – Max Lucado

"There are parts of our calling, works of the Holy Spirit, and defeats of the darkness that will come no other way than through furious, fervent, faith-filled, unceasing prayer." – Beth Moore

“Our prayers are sometimes answered without us realizing.” – Catherine Pulsifer

“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” –  Corrie ten Boom

"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

"If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith." – Charles Spurgeon

“Prayer feeds the soul – as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul – and it brings you closer to God.” – Anonymous

"Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more." – George Muller

"I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord's side." – Abraham Lincoln

"Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day." - Joyce Meyer

“To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.” – Billy Graham

"Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.'" – Thomas Kinkade

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden." - Corrie Ten Boom

"Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts." – Mother Teresa

“The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.” – Samuel Chadwick

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day." – Abraham Lincoln

“Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice is its most essential part. Listening to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.” – Andrew Murray

“As it is the business of tailors to make clothes, and the business of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray!” – Martin Luther

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” – John F. Kennedy

“Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.” – Martin Luther

"Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying." – E.M. Bounds

“Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.” – Martin Luther

“Prayer – the world’s greatest wireless connection.” – Anonymous

“The things you take for granted someone else is praying for.” – Anonymous

“I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.” – Anonymous

"Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty." - E.M. Bounds

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” – Martin Luther

“Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.” – E.M. Bounds

“Prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.” – E.M Bounds

“To desire revival… and at the same time to neglect (personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.” – A.W. Tozer

“I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.” – George Mueller

"God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil." – Mother Teresa

“Search for a person who claims to have found Christ apart from someone else’s prayer, and your search may go on forever.” – E. Bauman

“A day without prayer is a day without blessing, and a life without prayer is a life without power.” – Edwin Harvey

“Quit playing, start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start travail.” – Leonard Ravenhill

“Prayer is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister. Pray, then my dear brother; pray, pray, pray.” – Edward Payson

“Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!” – Andrew Murray

“The devil is aware that one hour of close fellowship, hearty converse with God in prayer, is able to pull down what he hath been contriving and building many a year.” – Flavel

“Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things ‘above all that we ask or think.’” – Andrew Murray

“Prayer is designed by God to display his fullness and our need. It glorifies God because it puts us in the position of the thirsty and God in the position of the all-supplying fountain.” – John Piper

“What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul.” – Samuel Chadwick

“Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality…plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way…Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it.” – Charles Spurgeon

“Where there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer.” – Andrew Murray

“A godly man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in, prayer is poured out. Prayer is the soul’s traffic with Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit, and we go up to Him by prayer.” – Thomas Watson

“Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy.” — John Piper

“Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.” – John Wesley

“God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.” – John Smith

“What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men who the Holy Spirit can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not come on machinery but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.” – E. M. Bounds

“Time spent in prayer is never wasted.” – Francis Fenelon

“None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. It is a great matter when in extreme need to take hold on prayer.” – Martin Luther

“You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it.” – Sir Thomas Buxton

“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.” – Philippians

“Fervent prayers produce phenomenal results.” – Woodrow Kroll

“Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.” – E. M. Bounds

“Prayer delights God’s ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.” – Thomas Watson

“The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.” – Richard Alleine

“Prayer is the answer to every problem there is.” — Oswald Chambers

“Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down.” – William Gurnall

“Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.” – George Herbert

“And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.” – Mark

“Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.” – Anonymous

“True prayer, not just mindless, halfhearted petitions, it is what digs the well God wants to fill with faith.” – Anonymous

“A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.” – C. H. Spurgeon.

“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.” – Charles Spurgeon

“To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God’s responses.” – Charles Stanley

“Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of Him that we are capable of in this life.” – William Law

“The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.” – Anonymous

“Prayer is the link that connects us with God.” – A.B. Simpson

“The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.” – Thomas Brooks

“The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father’s love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.” — Charles H. Spurgeon

“Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!” — Andrew Wommack

“I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.” – Francois Fenelon

“Prayer is not the answer. God is the answer.” – Anonymous

“When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don’t, they don’t.” – William Temple

“Prayer reveals to souls the vanity of earthly goods and pleasures. It fills them with light, strength and consolation; and gives them a foretaste of the calm bliss of our heavenly home.” – Anonymous

“True prayer, not just mindless, halfhearted petitions, it is what digs the well God wants to fill with faith.” – Anonymous

“A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.” – C. H. Spurgeon.

“Praise in prayer reveals our mindset about whether God is listening” – Pastor Ben Walls Sr

“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.” – F.B. Meyer

“The Lord is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the righteous.” – Proverbs

“Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.” – Billy Graham

“Prayer is the vehicle by which we reach God.” — Greg Laurie

“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.” – Martin Luther.

“It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without heart.” – Anonymous

“Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.” – Martin Luther

“Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.” – Charles Spurgeon

“Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it.” – Anonymous

“Prayer is both conversation and encounter with God. . .. We must know the awe of praising his glory, the intimacy of finding his grace, and the struggle of asking his help, all of which can lead us to know the spiritual reality of his presence.” – Tim Keller

“Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” – D. L. Moody

“There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.” – Jonathan Edwards

“Prayer is the natural out gushing of a soul in communion with Jesus.” – Charles Spurgeon

“Whenever God determines to do a great work, He first sets His people to pray.” – Charles H. Spurgeon

“Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.” – Johnathon Edwards

“True prayer is a way of life, not just in case of emergency.” – Billy Graham

“Prayer is not a preparation for work, it is work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it is the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.” — Oswald Chambers

“True prayer is measured by weight not by length.” – Anonymous

“Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.” — Charles Grandison Finney

“True prayer is a spontaneous outpouring of honesty and need from the soul’s foundation. In calm times, we say a prayer. In desperate times, we truly pray. – David Jeremiah

“Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.” — John Piper