Pray Often Quotes

#1. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

John Bunyan

#2. Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).

Boyd K. Packer

#3. I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.

Jimmy Carter

#4. We often pray to Jesus; we pray to the Father, especially in the 'Our Father'; but not often to the Holy Spirit ... Pray often to the Holy Spirit so that He may help us, give us the strength, give us the inspiration and lead us forward.

Pope Francis

#5. Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

William Gurnall

#6. Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

Jeremy Taylor

#7. When I have a problem I pray about it, and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.

James L. Kraft

#8. Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. 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

#10. Be there for your children. Sit on the bed and enjoy the late-night talks - try to stay awake! Pray for the Lord to inspire you. Forgive often. Choose your battles. Testify frequently of Jesus Christ and His goodness and of the Restoration. And most of all, let them know of your trust in the Lord.

Bonnie D. Parkin

#11. I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#12. But in the darkness of her room he was reminded that helplessness was often a portal to God, because rarely did the fragile, self-serving human pray for things in his complete control.

Rene Gutteridge

#13. That is one reason it is hard to get people to pray at church and why prayer meetings are often dead. People don't see that prayer - real, two-way conversation with God - makes any difference. If

Dallas Willard

#14. Too often, we just ask for help instead of really giving thanks for the many things that we've had and are so helpful to us that we did nothing to deserve, so we should give thanks each and every day and pray for guidance in helping us along the proper path.

John Wooden

#15. Very often, we are confronted by people who want us to pray their way or colleagues who want us to think their way. We must remember to maintain our individual relationship with God. We have the shining light of Soul, and because we have it, we also have the wisdom of God.

Harold Klemp

#16. God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God.

Gary Chapman

#17. The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#18. Jesus would pray to himself and cry. I often do the same.

Carl-John X. Veraja

#19. Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!

Robert D. Hales

#20. I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

Mignon McLaughlin

#21. Countless people pray far more than they know. Often they have such a "stained-glass" image of prayer that they fail to recognize what they are experiencing as prayer and so condemn themselves for not praying.

Richard J. Foster

#22. The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love
fires of desire, fervent longings
which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer.

Thomas Guthrie

#23. What prayer most often changes is the wickedness and the hardness of our own hearts. That alone would be reason enough to pray, even if none of the other reasons were valid or true.

R.C. Sproul

#24. Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

A.B. Simpson

#25. Too often we use petty little petitions, oratorical exercises, or the words of others rather than the cries of our inmost being. When you pray, pray!

Billy Graham

#26. Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.'

Thomas Kinkade

#27. Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.

Stephen Levine

#28. Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.

William Arthur Ward

#29. It is often just as sacred to laugh as it is to pray.

Charles R. Swindoll

#30. God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

John Owen

#31. We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.

Keith L. Moore

#32. People may pray, but how often do they just sit quiet and listen?

Linda McBurney-Gunhouse

#33. In Native spiritualities, there is often a belief that we cannot pray unless we've laughed.

Gloria Steinem

#34. No matter how often I pray, how many retreats I make, or how hard I try, I still sin. It is something that I bump up against daily.

James Martin

#35. I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.

Anne Lamott

#36. Most prayers are not really questions ... and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer ... We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves ... that the world is changed.

Douglas Wood

#37. So often these days eating Indian food passes for spirituality. I don't meditate, I don't pray, but I eat two samosa's every day.

Dan Bern

#38. We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.

Mignon McLaughlin

#39. Often, we try to tell God what we want Him to do - but ask Him to help you guard against this, and to seek His will instead of your own. Pray and ask God to guide you.

Billy Graham

#40. Often, when I pray, I wonder if I'm not posting letters to a non-existent address.

C.S. Lewis

#41. Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him; it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.

Andy Murray

#42. Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

Eugene H. Peterson

#43. So often, well-meaning Christians pray for a visitation from God, but what He really wants is a habitation with us. He doesn't want to come into our lives as a guest while we are on our best behavior around Him until He leaves.

Jack Frost

#44. Too often we pray ASAP prayers - as soon as possible. We need to start praying ALAT prayers - as long as it takes.

Mark Batterson

#45. I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

C.S. Lewis

#46. Often we comfort ourselves only with words, but if we pray enough, the conviction will come too that Christ is our King, not Stalin, Bevins, or Truman. That He has all things in His hands, that 'all things work together for good for those that love Him.

Dorothy Day

#47. We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#48. If you bow your knees more often in prayer, you will feel the presence of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#49. Sloth is most often evidenced in busyness ... in frantic running around, trying to be everything to everyone, and then having no time to listen or pray, no time to become the person who is doing these things.

Eugene H. Peterson

#50. The key to valuing something is to lose it and then realize how rare it was - after which you pray like mad to regain what you foolishly lost. The value of an item often depends upon how hard it is to attain.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#51. We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

Lyman Abbott

#52. The simple choice to pray usually happens to the exclusion of something else in our lives. Often that something else is frivolous, but at times prayer must come at the expense of important things, such as our own work, our sleep or our time with loved ones.

Jason Mandryk

#53. Intercessors constitute the greatest unseen group of spiritual heroes in world history. Their labors are not seen, but the results are. Those who pray for the spiritual needs of others do immeasurable good in the world, often preventing (at least for a time) divine judgment.

Max Anders

#54. Prayer for the Day Higher Power, remind me to pray to You often. Remind me to stop and listen to You. Remind me that You love me very much.

Anonymous

#55. Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

Michael E. DeBakey

#56. Loved ones are sometimes taken from us, either by death or other circumstances outside our control. Yes, we should lament their departure and yes, we should pray for them often. But we shouldn't dwell so deeply upon such vacancies that life itself becomes empty.

John Shors

#57. While it may be true in some instances that our promised blessings will be fulfilled only in the eternities, it is also true that as we search, pray, and believe, we will often recognize things working together for our good in this life.

Susan W. Tanner