Quotations about Prayer
"The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer."
(F.B. Meyer)
"More things are wrought by prayer than this word dreams of."
(Alfred Lord Tennyson)
"Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God."
(Edwin Keith)
"Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God."
(Maltbie D. Babcock)
"Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth."
(Philip James Bailey)
"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work."
(Oswald Chanbers)
"When you are unwell, you must cough, sneeze, and ache prayer."
(Carrie Latet)
"Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end."
(Charles Finney)
"Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure."
(
D. L. Moody)
"Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need."
(E.M. Bounds)
"Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater."
(Spurgeon)
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
(John Muir)
"When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart."
(John Bunyan)
"When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality."
(Oswald Chambers)
"Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers."
(Austin O'Malley)
"Prayer requires more of the heart than the tongue."
(
Adam Clarke)
"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)
"Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble."
(Philip Melanchthen)
"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."
(Satchel Paige, 1974)
"The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him."
(William McGill)
"I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent."
(Henry Ward Beecher)
"Only those who see the invisible can attempt the impossible."
(Dick Eastman)
"It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use please. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments."
(
Charles H. Spurgeon)
"And that saWe do pray for mercy;
me prayer doth teach us all
To render the deeds of mercy."
(
William Shakespeare)
"God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them."
(Richard J. Needham)
"God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it."
(
John Wesley)
"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."
(Corrie ten Boom)
"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone."
(Robert Foster)
"When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing."
(Saint Francis of Assisi)
"No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it."
(
Guy H. King)
"Children are the keys of Paradise.They alone are good and wise, Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer."
(R.H.Stoddard, The Children's Prayer)
"Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man."
(Francis J. Spellman)
"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language."
(P.J. Wingate)
"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
(Søren Kierkegaard)
"No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it."
(Guy H. King)
"He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all."
(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
"Do not make prayer a monologue-make it a conversation."
(
Author unknown)
"Seven days without prayer makes one weak."
(Allen Vartlett)
"Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things."
(Samuel M. Shoemaker)
"Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer."
(Author Unknown)
"Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish."
(Author Unknown)
"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."
(Frederick Douglass, escaped slave)
"I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer."
(Madame De Stael)
"As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools."
(Author Unknown)
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
(Benjamin Franklin)
"To pray in Jesus' name means to pray in his spirit, in his compassion, in his love, in his outrage, in his concern. In other words, it means to pray a prayer that Jesus himself might pray."
(Kenneth L. Wilson)
"When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic."
(Jane Wagner, In Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin)
"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."
(Oswald Chambers)
"When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep."
(Author Unknown)
"Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness."
(Richard C. Trench)