Top 100 Jesus Prayer Quotes
#1. I thank God that He didn't answer Jesus' prayer in the garden - otherwise I'd still be on the hook for my own salvation.
Jared Brock
#2. If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.
J.D. Salinger
#3. God almighty, Franny," he said. "If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one. Keep him in mind if you say it, and him only, and him as he was and not as you'd like him to have been.
J.D. Salinger
#4. Let us return to Jesus' prayer that, through the unity of the disciples, the world may recognize him as the one sent by the Father. This recognizing and believing is not something merely intellectual; it is about being touched by God's love and therefore changed; it is about the gift of true life.
Pope Benedict XVI
#5. Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
Oswald Chambers
#6. Jesus thought us how to pray because the Lord's Prayer is the image of the Ten Commandments.
Felix Wantang
#7. O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.
Arthur Bennett
#8. Constant prayer is the bridge that leads to life
Karen Gibbs
#9. When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will.
Dillon Burroughs
#10. Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.
Zora Neale Hurston
#11. Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.
Charles Spurgeon
#12. A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.
Beth Moore
#13. Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
Shane Claiborne
#14. I determined to learn to pray so that my experience conforms to the words of Jesus rather than try to make his words conform to my impoverished experience.
Richard Foster
#15. [Jesus] had only three years of public ministry, but He was never too hurried to spend hours in prayer ... No day began or closed in which He was not in communion with His Father.
Billy Graham
#16. The "more" of Christianity is a myth; a deceitful illusion designed to keep you busy and running in circles, always seeking but never finding, always learning but never coming to the knowledge of the Truth - a carrot on a stick, if you will.
D.R. Silva
#17. We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.
Francis Chan
#18. 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
#19. It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.
Stormie O'martian
#20. 25At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: "O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike. 26Yes, Father, it pleased you to do it this way!
Anonymous
#21. Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.
Billy Graham
#22. Heavenly Father, may your will be done in my life, in Jesus Name. Amen
Lailah Gifty Akita
#23. Dear God, I don't ask that my life be perfect but that you allow the myriad of emotions in my life to end each day with calmness. May I sleep peacefully to do your work again by morning light. I ask for these things in Jesus's name, amen.
Ron Baratono
#24. [Jesus] prayed briefly when He was in a crowd; He prayed a little longer when He was with His disciples; and He prayed all night when He was alone. Today, many in the ministry tend to reverse that process.
Billy Graham
#25. He (Jesus) cannot be distracted from his late-night prayer in Gethsemane.
Alex Early
#26. Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Melanie Dickerson
#27. Jesus taught us how to pray because The Lord's Prayer is the spiritual image of the Ten Commandments.
Felix Wantang
#28. The joy of the presence of Jesus, you must be able to give wherever you go. But you cannot give what you don't have. That's why you need a pure heart, a pure heart that you will receive as a fruit of your prayer, as a fruit of your oneness with Christ.
Mother Teresa
#29. Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
A.B. Simpson
#30. The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints.
David A. Bednar
#31. Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them!
Joseph Prince
#32. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let Your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard Your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4:6-7
Shelley Hitz
#33. Jesus is the Commander of two armies. One is an army of angels in heaven and one is the army of prayer warriors on earth. As Commander of these armies, He shows us how to take back from the enemy all he has stolen that is rightfully ours. We do that in prayer as prayer warriors!
Stormie O'martian
#34. Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#35. The men upon whose shoulders rested the initial responsibility of Christianizing the world came to Jesus with one supreme request. They did not say, "Lord, teach us to preach"; "Lord, teach us to do miracles"; or "Lord, teach us to be wise" ... but they said, "Lord, teach us to pray.
Billy Graham
#36. Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#37. My prayer for you is that you come to understand and have the courage to answer Jesus' call to you with the simple word 'yes'.
Mother Teresa
#38. To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.
Ole Hallesby
#39. The normal Christian life is a life of regular, daily answer to prayer. In the model prayer Jesus taught His disciples to pray daily for bread, and expect to get it, and to ask daily for forgiveness, for deliverance from the evil one, and for other needs, and daily to get the answers they sought.
John R. Rice
#40. Pray without ceasing, say all you can to God and lay all your difficulties before him. He'll take away your tears and make a way where there seems to be none. Wake up and do it!
Israelmore Ayivor
#41. Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.
Pope John Paul II
#42. When your heart is heavy and your spirit in distress,
Reach out your arms to Jesus, and sense his sweet caress.
He answers when we call him, our every prayer he hears,
Reach out your arms to Jesus, for he is always near.
Diane Goold
#43. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#44. Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads his Church today; he hears our prayers when we humbly, earnestly, unceasingly seek to know his will, making this, too, a day of miracles and of revelation.
Spencer W. Kimball
#45. Prayer was more important to Jesus than food.
Ron Kincaid
#46. All of Jesus' teaching on prayer in the Gospels can be summarized with one word: ask.
Paul E. Miller
#47. I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His Word.
Anne Graham Lotz
#48. Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer ... He may sometimes keep us long waiting ... but He will never send us empty away.
J.C. Ryle
#49. 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
#51. Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.
Charles Spurgeon
#52. Eternal life is knowing God the Father and His Son Jesus Christ!
Andrew Wommack
#53. Many pray for the right partner but cease to pray for the right union--that they be one as Jesus and the Father are one and so experience the full measure of His joy in the relationship.
Ravi Zacharias
#54. In order not to be subjected to the continual harassments of the evil spirit, we must constantly have in our hearts this prayer to Jesus Christ: "Jesus, Son of God, have mercy upon me!
John Of Kronstadt
#55. We don't want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone - Trust God to take care of them.
Stormie O'martian
#56. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for new friends, and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations, and that they'll be pleasing to you. We thank you for this food and ask your blessing on it, and on the hands that prepared it. In Jesus' name, Amen
Virginia Smith
#57. Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.
Augustine Of Hippo
#58. Prayer, which is breathing with the Spirit of Jesus, leads us to this immense knowledge.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#59. No one goes to heaven by parroting a prayer, being baptized, or joining a church, but by believing in Jesus Christ with humble submission.
Steven J. Lawson
#60. Don't think too small about what God could do in your life - be prepared for God to do a big thing.
Stormie O'martian
#61. If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#62. O what peace we often forfeit, O what needless pain we bear, All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer! - "WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS" BY JOSEPH SCRIVEN
Cheri Fuller
#63. Knew something about prayer, asked Jesus how to pray (Luke 11:1). Here is where prayer really
Edward T. Welch
#64. 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
#65. My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus.
John Piper
#66. Prayer is the connection that opens the door for all of God's blessings to be manifested in our lives. It is the process of granting permission for Heaven to show up with the finished works of Jesus.
Paul Silway
#68. Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.
D. A. Carson
#69. The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.
Cyc Jouzy
#70. It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.
Cyc Jouzy
#71. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
Kevin DeYoung
#72. Thousands of Christians compromise their faith in Jesus Christ by denying Him. Even some clergymen neglect or deliberately refuse to close a public prayer in the name of Jesus for fear of offending an unbeliever. They cannot endure the persecution that may follow an acknowledgment of Jesus Christ.
Billy Graham
#73. Jesus demonstrated the importance of prayer by His own example. His whole ministry was saturated with prayer.
Billy Graham
#74. 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
#75. For me, prayer means launching out of the heart towards God; it means lifting up one's eyes, quite simply, to heaven, a cry of grateful love, from the crest of joy or the trough of despair; it's a vast, supernatural force which opens out my heart, and binds me close to Jesus.
Therese Of Lisieux
#76. Those who have truly decided to serve the Lord God should practice the remembrance of God and uninterrupted prayer to Jesus Christ, mentally saying: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
Seraphim Of Sarov
#77. We complicate prayer as we complicate many things. It is to love Jesus with undivided love-for you, for me, for all of us. And that undivided love is put into action when we do as Jesus said, love as I have loved you
Mother Teresa
#78. Paul's prayer is the product of his passion for people. His unaffected fervency in prayer is not whipped-up emotionalism but the overflow of his love for brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus.
Alexander Strauch
#79. Jesus paid it all. I mean all. He not only purchased your forgiveness of sins and your ticket to heaven, He purchased every blessing and every answer to prayer you will ever receive.
Jerry Bridges
#80. We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus.
Mike Bickle
#81. Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.
A.B. Simpson
#82. What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.
Joseph M. Scriven
#83. For every Gospel action, there is an opposite and devious demonic reaction. We see this in the book of Acts. It appears in church history. We experience it in our personal journeys.
Daniel Henderson
#84. There's only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.
Stormie O'martian
#85. The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
Bill Hybels
#86. Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.
S.D. Gordon
#87. Through intentional, deliberate, strategic prayer, you grab hold of Jesus and of everything He's already done on your behalf. It's how you tap into the power of heaven and watch it reverberate in your experiences. It's
Priscilla Shirer
#88. In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.
Stormie O'martian
#89. The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.
Amos Smith
#90. Prayer, at its most basic level, was surrender. Like Jesus in the garden, saying, "Not My will, but Yours, be done." The ironic thing was, when a person surrendered their will, they got God's, and then they received what they were really looking for all along. This was what she believed.
Chris Fabry
#91. The banknote without a signature at the bottom is nothing but a worthless piece of paper. A few strokes of a pen confer on it all its value. The prayer of a poor child of Adam is a feeble thing in itself, but once endorsed by the hand of the Lord Jesus it accomplishes much.
J.C. Ryle
#92. To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts. It is not our prayer which moves the Lord Jesus. It is Jesus who moves us to pray.
Ole Hallesby
#93. I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.
Dwight L. Moody
#94. As far as possible, you should pray in quiet and silent devotion. Try to have a favorite topic of prayer, such as a devotion to the passion of Jesus, the Blessed Sacrament, awareness of the divine presence; go directly to Jesus without too much fuss.
Peter Julian Eymard
#95. How do we find the Lord? I believe we have to seek Him in simple things. I believe we have to seek Him in personal prayer. I believe we must seek Him in personal service. I believe we seek and find Jesus when we follow His example.
Thomas S. Monson
#96. My prayer is that people will see that following Jesus costs you everything you are and everything you have. And my prayer is that people will see that Jesus is worth it.
David Platt
#97. Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.
Basilea Schlink
#98. Use 'breath prayers' throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath.
Rick Warren
#99. Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?
Dennis Quaid
#100. The phrase "timing is everything" is never more true than in your walk with God - HIS timing is everything.
Stormie O'martian
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