Prayer Meeting Quotes

#1. The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting.

Leonard Ravenhill

#2. Our spiritual immutarity never shows up more than in our lack of praying, be it alone or in a church prayer meeting. Let 20% of the chior members fail to turn up for rehearsal and the chior master is offended. Let 20% of the church members turn up for a prayer meeting, and the pastor is elated.

Leonard Ravenhill

#3. When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Simon Newcomb

#4. What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

Jim Cymbala

#5. How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

Dwight L. Moody

#6. A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

H.L. Mencken

#7. The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

Jim Cymbala

#8. There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good.

J. Vernon McGee

#9. A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.

Rich Lowry

#10. You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning. You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night. But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting.

Jim Cymbala

#11. The reason "other churches" don't grow: "Jim, the truth is, I couldn't have a real prayer meeting in my church. I'd be embarrassed at the smallness of the crowd ... "

Jim Cymbala

#12. You have no time for the prayer meeting, but you have time enough to be brushing your hair to all eternity; you have no time to bend your knee, but plenty of time to make yourselves look smart and grand.

Charles Spurgeon

#13. We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians.

Charles Spurgeon

#14. Seen better fights than this at a prayer meeting.

John Wayne

#15. There is a man in Bolingbroke who lisps and always testifies in prayer-meeting. He says, 'If you can't thine like an electric thtar thine like a candlethtick.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. Hands up! Hands up! Everybody on the floor!" The effect was akin to three wild-eyed berserkers storming a prayer meeting.

Bryan Burrough

#17. All revival begins, and continues, in the prayer meeting. Some have also called prayer the "great fruit of revival." In times of revival, thousands may be found on their knees for hours, lifting up their heartfelt cries, with thanksgiving, to heaven.

Henry Blackaby

#18. The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting.

Vance Havner

#19. Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together.

Nicole Holofcener

#20. I'm a very good friend of Stephen Crabb, I had great fun campaigning with Boris Johnson on the winning side, I have great experience working with Theresa May in government on national security. I respect all of them and I hope that's very much the tone.

Liam Fox

#21. Since God exists outside of time, He also has all of the time He needs to personally act in each of our lives. There is never a rush to the next meeting or the next message.

Dillon Burroughs

#22. Prayer, said Mechthild of Magdeburg, brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a narrow room where they speak much of love: and here the rules which govern that meeting are laid down by a master's hand.

Anonymous

#23. If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

Jerry Falwell

#24. The world's not black and white," she tells me. "Life doesn't have good guys and bad guys or a beginning, middle, and end. Not while you're living it. It's just people doing stuff that's beautiful or stupid or somewhere in the middle.

Robin York

#25. Life doesn't happen suddenly. It fades in.

M..

#26. Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

Dalai Lama

#27. Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#28. Prayer is meeting with God. It's checking in, saying I am here, You are here. It is the present moment.

J.R. Rim

#29. Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

Amy Layne Litzelman

#30. Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

Thomas S. Monson

#31. Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

Mario Puzo

#32. The purpose of a chronicler of moods and deeds does not require him to express his personal views upon the grave controversy above given.

Thomas Hardy

#33. If I want to put a Christmas tree in my yard, or three crosses for the crucifixion story, that's fine. But if I try to use public property or a public school as a way to impress my religion on other people, I think that violates the constitution.

John Shelby Spong

#34. Ray Bradbury had once written that "living at risk is jumping off a cliff, and building your wings on the way down." Sampson

James Patterson

#35. God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

Sam Storms

#36. It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?

Laura Wade

#37. When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

Ole Hallesby

#38. Getting fully into the spirit of the thing, I finished off my masterpiece with a rude word,

Diana Gabaldon

#39. I believe that people are like portmanteaux - packed with certain things, started going, thrown about, tossed away, dumped down, lost and found, half emptied suddenly, or squeezed fatter than ever, until finally the Ultimate Porter swings them on to the Ultimate Train and away they rattle ...

Katherine Mansfield

#40. I hope the day will never come when the church abandons the "class meeting" and the prayer service ... The old-fashioned "testimony" meeting should be revived, for through this medium we can share with others our faith and triumphs as well as our needs and mistakes.

Billy Graham

#41. This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.

John Thorn

#42. Education is so much of an organic unity that, if any of the stages or elements of it be defective, the deficiency is felt throughout all the subsequent growth of the organism.

George Trumbull Ladd

#43. The city's government seized and sold Church property until the

Tim Parks