Top 100 Our Prayers Quotes
#1. The hopeful lenses of our eyes are fixed on the busy hands of our dependable God ... He is working hardly on our prayers ... Don't be afraid!
Israelmore Ayivor
#2. Prayer is powerful, but if our prayers are aimless, meaningless, and mingled with doubt, they will be of little hope to us.
Billy Graham
#3. In any sphere of our life, if we learn to combine our prayers with actions, we will have victory
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Can our prayers change our circumstances? Absolutely! But when our circumstances don't change, it's often an indication that God is trying to change us.
Mark Batterson
#5. Our prayers can go where we cannot ... there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.
Brother Andrew
#6. Thank you for the sacrifices you and your families are making. Our Vietnam Veterans have taught us that no matter what are positions may be on policy, as Americans and patriots, we must support all of our soldiers with our thoughts and our prayers.
Zack Wamp
#7. Even if we are separated from people, and even if there is no other gift which we can give to them, we can surround them with the strength and the defence of our prayers.
William Barclay
#8. May our prayers today - and every day - be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being!
Billy Graham
#9. Vampires aren't noble?"
"No. We serve or we prey."
"Like monks?"
He frowned, confused, and then gave a soft chuckle. "Prey, as in hunt. No God would hear our prayers.
Erin Kellison
#10. Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is often tied to the holiness of our lives.
Craig Groeschel
#11. Our prayers are something akin to delivering a list, verses surrendering a life. The former will always leave me creating the next list, while the latter will leave me creating a new life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#12. ...faith is acting as if God has already answered. And acting as if God has answered means acting on our prayers...
Mark Batterson
#13. Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.
William Law
#14. And we're content with the world we know, just adjusted a little for our identities as Christians. That's precisely why so many of us are so atrophied in our prayers, why our prayers rarely reach the level of 'groanings too deep for words'.
Russell D. Moore
#15. Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
Dwight L. Moody
#16. What we now have as a government is a god, built by our mortal hands and, yet, externally variant in power, always requiring our prayers, pity and appeals in order to fulfill its supposed purposes.
Tony Osborg
#17. What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
Elisabeth Elliot
#18. We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.
Jerry Bridges
#19. What is in our hearts when we pray has more effect on whether our prayers are answered than the actual prayer itself. That's why, when we come before God to pray, He asks us to first confess anything in our hearts that shouldn't be there. He does that so nothing will separate us from Him.
Stormie O'martian
#20. If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.
Frederick Buechner
#21. God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6].
Thomas Brooks
#22. We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.
Agnes Baker Pilgrim
#23. Let holy preparation link hands with patient expectation, and we shall have far larger answers to our prayers.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#24. In the beginning of the contest with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for Divine protection," he stated. "Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered ... Do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?
Benjamin Franklin
#25. Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
Catherine Marshall
#26. Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
J.C. Ryle
#27. We have so many battles going on in America today that we should be a people of prayer. Our government needs prayer. Our leaders need prayer. Our schools need prayer. Our youth need our prayers. Our families need our prayers.
Billy Graham
#28. We pray because we are unworthy to pray. Our prayers are heard precisely because we believe that we are unworthy. We become worthy to pray when we risk everything on God's faithfulness alone.
Martin Luther
#29. Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.
William Feather
#30. All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.
Karl G. Maeser
#31. We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil.
Norman Mailer
#32. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony so long as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.
Amy Carmichael
#33. The primary theological fact about prayer is this: We address a triune God, and our prayers can be heard only through the distinct work of every person in the Godhead.
Timothy J. Keller
#34. If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.
George MacDonald
#36. God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
#37. A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
Epicurus
#38. After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.
William Feather
#39. Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
Baal Shem Tov
#40. May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ.
Billy Graham
#41. Even if one is familiar with the precise meaning of everything one recites, the act of worship can hardly have any significance at all unless it registers the overall message each part of our prayers is meant to convey.
Immanuel Jakobovits, Baron Jakobovits
#42. God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can't see it.
Stormie O'martian
#43. Too often the word 'prayer' induces guilt because we don't do enough of it. After all, I've never met anyone who said they pray too much! All of us fall short. And we often feel like our prayers fall flat.
Mark Batterson
#44. One reason many of us never get an answer to our prayers is that all we do is pray.
Mark Batterson
#45. Please Say A Prayer For All Who are Broken Hearted And Grief In Despair. May They Find Peace In The Loving Arms Of God And Comfort In Our Prayers. May They Pray For Us When It's Our Turn To Need Help In Our Own Despair.
Timothy Pina
#46. Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
E. M. Bounds
#47. The answers to our prayers may not come dramatically, but we must find quiet moments to seek greater light and truth. And when we receive it, it is our responsibility to live it, to share it, and to defend it.
Cheryl A. Esplin
#48. There is an otherness inside us
We never touch,
no matter how far down our hands reach.
It is the past,
with its good looks and Anytime, Anywhere ...
Our prayers go out to it, our arms go out to it
Year after year,
But who can ever remember enough?
Charles Wright
#49. Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament
Henry Suso
#50. God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers - not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
Martin Luther
#51. The Lord is in all of our lives. He loves us. He wants to bless us. He wants us to seek His help. As He guides us and directs us and as He hears and answers our prayers, we will find the happiness here and now that He desires for us. May we be aware of His blessings in our lives.
Thomas S. Monson
#52. Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
D. A. Carson
#53. Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
C.S. Lewis
#54. People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.
Jill Briscoe
#55. Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.
David Jeremiah
#56. Our prayers must be in accordance with [God's] will. He knows better what is good for us than we know ourselves.
Billy Graham
#57. We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
Dwight L. Moody
#58. All of our prayers are to include thanksgiving. Like the leper, we must pause, turn back, and give thanks. We are so indebted to God that we can never exhaust our opportunities for expressing gratitude. Forgetting
R.C. Sproul
#59. The greatest defect we have in our prayers and in all that happens to us, particularly in that which concerns tribulations, is our lack of confidence ... Faith is great or little according to the measure of our confidence.
Francis De Sales
#60. Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.
Cyprian
#61. Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
Adoniram Judson
#62. The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.
Jonathan Reckford
#63. God requires us to have a heart of faith, and answers our prayers according to our faith. In
Adam Houge
#64. If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
#65. It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.
Ole Hallesby
#66. Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.
Adrian Rogers
#67. We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.
Charles Spurgeon
#68. Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
J.C. Ryle
#69. If we are to have our prayers answered, we must give God the glory.
Billy Graham
#70. So often, we want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention. But we need to leave enough space in our days to get up from our prayers and actually look for God in the moment-to-moment things that happen.
Lysa TerKeurst
#71. I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.
Alexander Whyte
#72. We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Oswald Chambers
#73. He doesn't believe the dead need our prayers, nor can they use them. But anyone who knows the Bible as he does, knows that our God is a capricious God, and there's no harm in hedging your bets.
Hilary Mantel
#74. The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#75. Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers ... can move the very heart of God who created the universe?
Joni Eareckson Tada
#76. All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#77. We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God's work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#78. The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers.
Mark Batterson
#79. If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
#80. If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
Madeleine L'Engle
#81. When people pray, they're choosing to believe there's a good, loving God reaching out to us, listening to our prayers, and meeting with us.
Ed Cyzewski
#82. When God does not answer our prayers, the way we want Him to is because we ask according to our own will, and not His. God's will must be a part of our prayer language.
Danny L. Deaube
#84. We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus' name to our prayers.
Bryan Chapell
#85. [People] need to find words that can reconnect them with each other. That is the gift of good liturgy, yeah. We're not talking about fluffy stuff. We're talking about real life for people around the world. Our prayers should be said like the daily breath that gives us life.
Shane Claiborne
#86. If there is a God that has special plans for humans, then He has taken very great pains to hide His concern for us. To me it would seem impolite if not impious to bother such a God with our prayers.
Steven Weinberg
#87. If you think you are unworthy to pray, that thought is not coming from Jesus Christ. More than anything, He wants us to approach Heavenly Father, to have our prayers heard and answered.
Toni Sorenson
#88. The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time
His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding.
Elisabeth Elliot
#89. ...it is certain that we must learn the value of being women committed to our prayers and faithful to our calling.
Neva Coyle
#90. By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
John Newton
#91. Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying
Joyce Meyer
#92. I witness the reality and divinity of our Eternal Father, of His Only Begotten Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Ghost. I testify that our Father hears and answers our prayers. May each of us strive with greater resolve to ask in faith and thereby make our prayers truly meaningful.
David A. Bednar
#93. The best worship that we ever render to God is far from perfect. Our praises, how faint and feeble they are! Our prayers, how wandering, how wavering they are! When we get nearest to God, how far off we are! When we are most like Him, how greatly unlike Him we are!
Charles Spurgeon
#94. If we, like the Savior, have the faith to put our trust in our Father in Heaven, to submit to His will, the true spirit of peace will come as a witness and strength that He has heard and answered our prayers.
Rex D. Pinegar
#95. The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity.
John Shelby Spong
#96. The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.
Arthur W. Pink
#97. Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#98. When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
#99. When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
Oswald Chambers
#100. People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
Rick Warren
