Top 100 Bible Prayer Quotes
#1. God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.
Henry Blackaby
#2. REALITY 4: GOD SPEAKS BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THROUGH THE BIBLE, PRAYER, CIRCUMSTANCES, AND THE CHURCH TO REVEAL HIMSELF, HIS PURPOSES, AND HIS WAYS.
Henry T. Blackaby
#3. Don't forget: Without fuel, a fire grows cold - and without the "fuel" of the Bible, prayer, and Christian fellowship, our faith grows cold.
Billy Graham
#4. There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#5. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
John Bunyan
#6. My soul crave to walk with the Creator.
My spirit sought to know the will of the Creator.
My mind seek to mediate on the Holy words spoken by the Creator.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#7. There's so much to be grateful for, and praising God for giving you His Spirit is a great place to begin.
Even if you don't think you have much to be grateful for right now, know that you can always praise God for the Holy Spirit's presence in your life!
Stormie O'martian
#8. My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.
Roma Downey
#9. Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
J.C. Ryle
#10. I urge new converts to take plenty of time in Bible study and prayer before getting on a public platform to testify.
Billy Graham
#11. I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Francis W. Newman
#12. Praying God's solutions from the Word releases life, but praying negatively and focusing on your problems only energizes and strengthens them.
Andrew Wommack
#13. The failure of the citizens to pray for the country, will lead to its downfall.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#14. The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.
David Jeremiah
#15. I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I don't see it meaning, 'I'm going to heaven after I die.' Before modern evangelicalism nobody accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, or walked down an aisle, or said the sinner's prayer.
Brian D. McLaren
#16. A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.
Donald Miller
#17. Between the Bible and the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to grow spiritually. And the more you grow, the more God can use you.
Elizabeth George
#18. A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#19. Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.
F.B. Meyer
#20. Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.
Alan Bennett
#21. I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps me from prayer, solitude, and the Bible, however good it appears, is my enemy if I am to be God's devoted friend and follower.
Tommy Barnett
#22. Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt , speaking]
Mark Batterson
#23. We have a blood bought covenant with God that says we are His and He is ours. We are loved, and have a right to call to Him, call on Him and have His presence in our lives through worship, bible study and prayer - p. 14
Wanda L. Scott
#24. Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation ...
Abraham Lincoln
#25. In the Bible God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to God. Both are essential.
Billy Graham
#26. I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.
Anne Graham Lotz
#27. The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.
Martin Luther
#28. Prophecy will confirm and broaden the vision; it cannot create one if nothing is there. Vision is created through prayer, seeking God and sharing our hearts with people in the work. If these things are absent we need to be restoring people to God, not creating vision for empty hearts.
Graham Cooke
#29. The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit.
Stormie O'martian
#30. the chief and grand means of edification, without which all other helps will disappoint us, and prove like clouds without water - are the Bible and prayer - the Word of grace and the Throne of grace.
John Newton
#31. According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.
John R. Rice
#32. We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.
William Brewster
#33. He is the author of more than sixty books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, The Invisible Hand, Faith Alone, A Taste of Heaven, Truths We Confess, The Truth of the Cross, and The Prayer of the Lord. He also served as general editor of The Reformation Study Bible and
R.C. Sproul
#34. Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
J.I. Packer
#36. Jesuits like to invite people into imaginative prayer. That's a classic Jesuit way to pray - to say, what would it look like, sound like, feel like to be in certain parts of the Bible.
Anonymous
#37. Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.
Rafael Cruz
#38. If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God, then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.
Ole Hallesby
#39. The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen; to pray is to see and breathe.
Gangai Victor
#41. I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
J.C. Ryle
#42. The devil is alive and kicking. But if you are in Christ and follow the rules of daily Bible study, prayer, and witnessing, he has no power over you.
Billy Graham
#43. The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word.
Billy Graham
#44. The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.
Roma Downey
#47. One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look
vertically upwards
Oche Otorkpa
#49. Connect with positive people who will stand in faith with you and lift you up in prayer. Study the Word of God and put your faith in action, for the Bible declares, "Faith without deeds is dead" (James 2:26)
Jocelyn Green
#50. Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.
Bob Buford
#51. I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way
Cotton Mather
#52. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
Mark Batterson
#53. It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.
Cyc Jouzy
#54. On my journey I have discovered that there is a huge difference between the traditional view of prayer and what the Bible teaches.
Paul Silway
#55. Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth - but of even greater importance is God's Word, the Bible.
Billy Graham
#56. The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.
Cyc Jouzy
#57. You have no excuse to give ... Jonah prayed fervently even in the belly of the shark! Environment is not a barrier!
Israelmore Ayivor
#58. My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#59. The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
Matthew Henry
#60. This is the spirit of prayer
sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require
God will not accept.
Gardiner Spring
#61. It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
Rod Parsley
#62. By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
Annie Dillard
#63. Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.
Lisa Bedrick
#64. Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
J.I. Packer
#65. Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.
David Platt
#66. Love and Trust God, It's a life time commitment!!!
John Dye
#67. The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are fine-but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling.
Jim Cymbala
#68. The Bible's teaching on prayer leads overwhelmingly to one conclusion: Prayer changes things.
John Ortberg Jr.
#69. When you stop worrying about your problems and start praising God for His magnificent power you will experience His peace.
Elizabeth George
#70. When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?
Russ Scalzo
#71. gets up very early each morning and spends two or three hours in prayer and then an hour or two reading the Bible.
K.P. Yohannan
#72. When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.
Anne Graham Lotz
#73. But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week.
Lynn Austin
#74. No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray ... How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#75. The seed of God's Word must be planted in a person's heart before they can be born again.
Andrew Wommack
#76. Constant prayer is the bridge that leads to life
Karen Gibbs
#77. When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.
Thomas Goodwin
#78. Whatever it is you ask for in prayer, believing you have received it, it shall be yours.
Jesus
#79. The value of this book lies in its heartfelt simplicity.
Jason E. Royle
#80. How different our prayer life would be if we submitted our will to God's. Imagine if we asked only for things to benefit His kingdom.
Amber Albee Swenson
#81. The Book of Psalms is the Bible's hymnbook. It will show you what it means to walk with God in prayer and praise.
Billy Graham
#82. Many times I have been driven to prayer. When I was in Bible school I didn't know what to do with my life. I used to walk the streets ... and pray, sometimes for hours at a time. In His timing, God answered those prayers, and since then prayer has been an essential part of my life.
Billy Graham
#83. Pray frequently as you read [the Bible] and you will discover a fellowship with God.
Billy Graham
#84. We are not to practice Bible reading, fasting, solitude, prayer, and other disciplines to make God happy with us but to make space to hear how happy God is with us because of Jesus.
Jimmy Davis
#85. I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer.
Jodi Benson
#86. Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#88. You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#89. If we will turn to God in prayer, and if we will seek His comfort through His Words in the Bible, we will find our hearts and minds healed.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#90. The world's sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer.
Billy Graham
#91. The Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible, but it is noteworthy that the first Psalm is not a prayer per se but a meditation - in
Timothy J. Keller
#93. A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#94. I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#96. The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
Dallas Willard
#97. Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.
Jim George
#98. Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening.
Leanne Payne
#99. Sodom, which had no Bible, no preachers, no tracts, no prayer meetings, no churches, perished. How then will America and England be spared from the wrath of the Almighty, think you? We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers - and yet what sin!
Leonard Ravenhill
#100. In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.
Dwight L. Moody
