Quotes about Prayer

Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows.

People can creatively devise how to approach a mute God, but they must listen to a speaking God.

May John Newton's prayer for himself be our prayer to God for our churches: "I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God I am what I am.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie — I found that out.

You can't pray a lie.

As I passed alongside it, I prayed for a future in which the peoples of the Holy Land can live together in peace and harmony without the need for such instruments of security and separation

When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

God is not a slot machine. We don't go to God to get something; we go to give something.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

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

When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.