Top 100 In Prayer Quotes
#1. Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! 'Live' as a 'friend' with the 'wife'. You are her 'friend' and she is your 'friend'.
Dada Bhagwan
#2. However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and do the best we can do. It's like being in a family.
Roberta Bondi
#3. The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#4. Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
F.F. Bruce
#5. I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.
Guglielmo Marconi
#6. If we grow wiser and more learned in our intercourse with wise and learned persons, how much more will we gain in our inner life by communing with God in prayer.
Huldrych Zwingli
#7. I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker
#8. O, when the heart is, full, when bitter thoughts come crowding thickly up for utterance, and the poor common words of courtesy are such a very mockery, how much the bursting heart may pour itself in prayer!
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#9. All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.
Peter Forsyth
#10. The freshness of my eyes is given to me in prayer.
Anonymous
#11. We are here to start an era, to start an Age, to celebrate the transition from the Piscean Age into the Aquarian Age. We are here to celebrate that. We are the pioneers. We are the pioneers of the Dharma. Let's bow our heads in prayer and let us open our hearts.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#12. In prayer, God does want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn't track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.
Todd Stocker
#13. Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
Francois Fenelon
#14. God also cheers when we come to him with our wobbling, unsteady prayers. Jesus does not say, Come to me, all you who have learned how to concentrate in prayer, whose minds no longer wander, and I will give you rest.
Paul Miller
#15. Even then his thoughts did not turn to prayer but to Abbie and to what she would think about his lack of prayerfulness and that surely she would have immediately broken out in prayer. "Doesn't matter now," he whispered and felt that he could not cry out to God.
~William Drexler the Third
Gwenn Wright
#16. I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
Kiran Bedi
#17. Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.
N. T. Wright
#18. Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.
Andy Murray
#19. Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.
Charles Grandison Finney
#20. The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#21. Every stronghold the devil builds in the minds of people through thoughts should be pulled down in prayer
Sunday Adelaja
#22. The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.
Billy Graham
#23. Please. Don't use the Lord's name, unless you're in prayer. It's a hundred years in purgatory.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#24. All you who draw near to serve God in prayer, learn to be like Him, meek, humble, and true of heart; do not let there be any deceitfulness or duplicity nor coldness in your soul.
John Of Kronstadt
#25. Audacious faith is not passive. Neither is audacious prayer. Every aspiration you have in prayer needs an accompanying action. Otherwise you're not really praying. You're just pontificating.
You do the natural. Trust God for the super.
Steven Furtick
#26. None of us can know how poor we are in comparison with what we might have been if we had lived habitually nearer to God in prayer.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#27. We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.
Charles Spurgeon
#28. I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
J.I. Packer
#30. God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.
Charles Stanley
#31. Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.
Patrick Henry Hughes
#32. It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.
Morris Graves
#33. The reality is that a heart desire for prayer is lacking. Many do not know how to spend half an hour with God! It is not that they absolutely do not pray; they may pray every day - but they have no joy in prayer. Joy is the sign that God is everything to you.
Andrew Murray
#34. To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
Francois Fenelon
#35. I was raised with a strong belief in prayer. And that's never really left me. I find it great to close your eyes, breathe, and just talk to the universe. It really comforts me.
Kevin Daniels
#37. The reason many of us leave off praying and become hard towards God is because we have only a sentimental interest in prayer.
Oswald Chambers
#38. The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any clothing we did not make ourselves, or being unwilling to drive a car we did not construct entirely by ourselves.
N. T. Wright
#39. Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
Oswald Chambers
#40. As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.
Joyce Meyer
#41. I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.
Janet Jackson
#42. Unfaithful in prayer, weak in the working of the Spirit, its witness to Christ a mere formality, and unfaithful to its worldwide mission - such are the marks of a powerless church.
Andrew Murray
#43. He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.
Philip Neri
#44. I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.
Martin Luther
#45. I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!
Rachel Boston
#46. God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God.
Gary Chapman
#47. We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.
Matt Shea
#48. Prayer mirrors the gospel. In the gospel, the Father takes us as we are and gives us his gift of salvation. In prayer, the Father receives us as we are because of Jesus and gives us his gift of help.
Paul E. Miller
#49. This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us.
Elisabeth Elliot
#50. The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!
Matthew Henry
#51. There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer.
Oswald J. Smith
#52. Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
Thomas Watson
#53. A life taught in the Scriptures, and tuned in to God in prayer, produces an outflowing of grace and power.
Billy Graham
#54. I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
Tina Turner
#55. It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.
Amy Carmichael
#56. Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.
Andrae Crouch
#57. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer ... then surely we are also permitted doubt.
Yann Martel
#58. It's not my business to try and make God think like me ... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#59. When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
William Gurnall
#60. I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly.
Henry Eyring
#62. Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
Philip Yancey
#63. I don't believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.
Laini Taylor
#64. Consider yourself not ready to start the day, ill equipped, unprepared to mix with your fellows, until you have spent at least fifteen minutes in prayer. Count it as much a social necessity as washing.
Muriel Lester
#65. To be in pilgrimage is to have not yet arrived. There is a longing in prayer that is never fulfilled in this life, and sometimes the deep satisfactions we are looking for in prayer feel few and far between. Prayer is a journey.
Timothy Keller
#66. In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.
Mother Teresa
#68. Heavenly citizenship and heavenly homesickness are in prayer. Prayer is an appeal from the lowness, from the emptiness, from the need of earth, to the highness, the fullness and to the all-sufficiency of heaven.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#69. Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
John Calvin
#70. Patti proposes that I pray to accept whatever reality I'm in, staying alert for practical solutions rather than issuing orders in prayer. It takes discipline to stop beseeching the heavens for wheelbarrows of gold
Mary Karr
#71. Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.
Charles R. Swindoll
#72. Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.
Pope Francis
#73. Sure, sometimes it is great when, in prayer, we can express to God just what we feel; but better still when, in the act of praying, our feelings change. Liturgy is not, in the end, open to our emotional whims. It repoints the person praying, taking him somewhere else.
Lauren F. Winner
#74. 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
#75. The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.
Arthur Middleton
#76. The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#78. When in prayer, there is no need to implore, beg or repeat. You have been heard, and your wishes will be granted perfectly at the right time. Relax, be patient and do not fret.
Pooja Ruprell
#79. As John Newton said, if we are not getting much out of going to God in prayer, we will certainly get nothing out of staying away.
Timothy J. Keller
#80. When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.
Michael Catt
#81. If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.
Charles Spurgeon
#82. We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.
Bonar Law
#83. God is the only one who listens to her ... she is the prototype of the devout woman who perseveres in prayer, convinced that it will be heard ... How many favours each of us could tell of if we recalled with gratitude the gifts we have received in order to praise God for them!
University Of Navarra
#84. In prayer, something like an echo takes place. When you strike a note on the piano, corresponding strings in all the other pianos in the room start to vibrate. It is just the same when we express a pure wish in our ardent prayers: all around us we mobilize angels who are inspired by the same wish.
Richard Wurmbrand
#85. But she wouldn't pray, she took what comfort and credit she could for not praying; it wasn't that one disbelieved in prayer; one never lost all one's belief in magic. It was that she preferred to plan, it was fairer, it wasn't loading the dice.
Graham Greene
#86. One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.
Karen Wheaton
#87. In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.
Mark Twain
#88. The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Karl Philipp Moritz
#89. revival begins in prayer. And not only does it take prayer to birth revival, but it takes a certain level of prayer in order to maintain it.
Jonathan Ferguson
#90. As prayer warriors, we must remember that no matter how hopeless a situation may appear to us, God gives us power in prayer to do something about it.
We may be overwhelmed by it, but God isn't. We may not see a way out, but God can. Because of Him, we can make a difference!
Stormie O'martian
#91. When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
R.A. Torrey
#92. Mind the Light; come under Holy Obedience.
pg.33 in Prayer and Worship
Douglas Steer
#93. It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.
Lauren F. Winner
#94. Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#95. If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.
R.A. Torrey
#96. Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.
Richard J. Foster
#97. Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer ... Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#98. In prayer and in every work of your life avoid suspicious ness, doubt and diabolical imaginations. Let your spiritual eye be single, in order that the whole body of your prayer, of your works and of your life may be light.
John Of Kronstadt
#99. Impotence in prayer leads us, however unwillingly, to strike a truce with evil. When you accept what is, you abandon a Christian view of God and His plan for redemptive history.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#100. Before three thousand people were brought into the church on the day of Pentecost, the disciples had spent fifty days in prayer, fasting, and spiritual travail.
Billy Graham
