Prayer What Is The Purpose Quotes

#1. The fruit and the purpose of prayer is to be oned with and like God in all things.

Julian Of Norwich

#2. The true purpose of prayer is to get into God's presence so He can outline His agenda for us.

Mark Batterson

#3. The purpose is to be in gratitude forever. Live with applied consciousness, prosperity will break through the walls, flood you with it. You do prayer when you are in difficulty. Pray when you are not in difficulty! That is the attitude of gratitude.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#4. The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

#5. My path was predetermined by the Creator.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. Prayer is not intended to change God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has appointed for their accomplishment.

Arthur W. Pink

#7. The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.

Wayne Dyer

#8. We can accomplish a lot with prayer and fasting.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.

Henri Nouwen

#10. Prayer does not change the purpose of God. But prayer does change the action of God.

Chuck Smith

#11. The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

Charles L. Allen

#12. Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven's purpose on earth.

Bryan Chapell

#13. Men and women of integrity, character, and purpose have ever recognized a power higher than themselves and have sought through prayer to be guided by that power. Such has it ever been. So shall it ever be.

Thomas S. Monson

#14. To know your future, turn to the Lord in prayer

Sunday Adelaja

#15. Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer - anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.

Kat Lahr

#16. Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.

Brennan Manning

#17. But never has the Call been so clear
As now, when death's cool hand
Eases my spirit from my fevered body--
And I answer the Call of the Master -
The Call to new Heights.

Jessica Coupe

#18. The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from our temporal pursuits to give ourselves for what really matters.Revival will not occur without prayer. Prevailing prayer is always antecedent to revival.

David Shibley

#19. After all, the purpose of The Prayer is not to stand and bow all Day long. The purpose is to possess continuously that fragrant state which appears to you in prayer.

Swatika Jain

#20. The purpose of daily prayer is the cultivation of a sense of the sacred. Sacred energy renews us.

Marianne Williamson

#21. The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.

Oswald Chambers

#22. No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#23. Prayer serves a dual purpose; the blessing of man and the glory of God.

Billy Graham

#24. The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God.

Alan Cohen

#25. I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .

John Gwynne

#26. When God's first in your life and your family's second, the perspective is that the platform as player is for the purpose of lifting up His name and glorifying Him in all you do. No matter what the platform is, that's the goal and that's the prayer before tonight's game and before every game.

Luke Zeller

#27. We must lift our hands to God in prayer, crying out to Him to help us fulfill what He has called us for, to fulfill His will

Sunday Adelaja

#28. For you to know your calling and push aside the veil covering your future, it is necessary to turn to God in prayer and meditate on the Word of God

Sunday Adelaja

#29. Prayer in a combat zone serves exactly the same purpose as it does in peacetime. In war, the stakes are life and death, true; but if you believe in God and in the notion of a human soul, then we are always making decisions of tremendous significance.

Phil Klay

#30. Sometimes the purpose of prayer is to get us out of circumstances, but more often than not, the purpose of prayer is to get us through them.

Mark Batterson

#31. Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.

Chuck Smith

#32. I just want to tell you if that's what You have planned for me, if I am meant to be an obscure flower in the corner of the expansive garden, I will live there and I will love You and I will bloom just for You -- only, always, ever.

Sarah Thebarge

#33. They who reach down into the depths of life where, in the stillness, the voice of God is heard, have the stabilizing power which carries them poised and serene through the hurricane of difficulties.

Spencer W. Kimball

#34. Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.

J.C. Ryle

#35. The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

Catherine Marshall

#36. Prayer of Thanks Father, help me to love and appreciate the person You created me to be. I thank You that I don't have to compare myself to others in order to be accepted. You created me with a unique and wonderful purpose. I'm thankful that to You, I am special and beyond compare.

Joyce Meyer

#37. The primary purpose of prayer is to bring us into such a life of communion with the Father that, by the power of the Spirit, we are increasingly conformed to the image of the Son.

Richard Foster

#38. If you walk and talk with God, you will never miss the direction to your divine future. Be bold and offer your heart to be led by God.

Israelmore Ayivor