Quotes about Prayer

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Pray, and let God worry.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers—not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

All teachers of Scripture conclude that the essence of prayer is simply the lifting up of the heart to God. But if this is so, it follows that everything else that doesn't lift up the heart to God is not prayer. Therefore, singing, talking, and whistling without this lifting up of your heart to God are as much like prayer as scarecrows in the garden are like people. The name and appearance might be there, but the essence is missing.

You must pray diligently and strive to resist the desires of your sinful nature. Ask God to give you a Rebekah or Isaac instead of a Delilah or Samson—or someone even worse. Finding a devoted, loyal wife or husband isn't a matter of good luck. It's not the result of good judgment, as unbelievers think. Rather, a devout spouse is a gift from God.