Top 100 Quotes About Faith In Prayer
#1. A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
Vavasor Powell
#2. Faith induces one to pray.Prayer purifies the heart.In the purified heart is reflected the light of Lord.When the Light sighns the mortal becomes immortal.
Sivananda
#4. Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.
Andy Murray
#5. On one thing all who knew him were agreed: the secret of his usefulness lay in his intense and passionate life of prayer and his unshakeable confidence in God. 'When
Faith Cook
#6. Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,
prayer.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#7. My hope and my prayer for people would be to find and gather themselves such that their self-understanding, their willingness to act in the face of fear, [imbibes and imbues them] with enough faith [that] is bigger than their fear.
Rod Stryker
#8. PRAYER O God, our merciful Father in heaven, fill our hearts with patience under the cross, strengthen our faith, and so govern us that we give offense to none, neither in word nor deed. Grant us also this day all that we need for body and soul. Amen.
Martin Luther
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
David James Duncan
#13. Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
Oswald Chambers
#14. In times of trouble, be strong. And wait patiently for God to rescue you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#15. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.
Terry Tempest Williams
#16. Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.
Mahatma Gandhi
#17. Heavenly Father, may your will be done in my life, in Jesus Name. Amen
Lailah Gifty Akita
#19. Sometimes, just be. Do not think or worry, do not get angry under stress. Just pray and keep your faith in the Lord. Keep patience and see how well things will work out for you!
Sanchita Pandey
#20. Believe in your prayers. Believe in the power of your faith and blessings of your near and dear ones. Their love serves as a balm, soothes your heart and heals your body.
Sanchita Pandey
#21. We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.
Francis Asbury
#22. There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.
Peter Kreeft
#23. When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?
Russ Scalzo
#24. you only talk to yourself when you pray without believing and having faith in your prayers
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#25. To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#27. Whilst people wholeheartedly talk wrongly about you openly, wholeheartedly talk rightly to God in silence and in faith! He knows everything! He sees everything! He hears everything! And He has the very right answer to everything!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#28. The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
Jane Frances De Chantal
#29. All who call on God in true faith ... will certainly be heard.
Martin Luther
#30. But when the world and all that's behind it and in it seem black, I tell myself that self-respect and self-mastery are not everything, that faith and belief in the power of prayer are not so wonderful as what we call the ordinary love of two apparently very ordinary people.
William Fryer Harvey
#32. When brothers and sisters in Christ unite in the common bond of the Word of God and prayer, they are strengthened in their faith and witness.
Billy Graham
#33. Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.
Andy Stanley
#34. If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.
Charles Spurgeon
#35. You asked the Holy Spirit for a miracle, and now that you've got one you're trying to argue it away. People who don't believe in miracles shouldn't pray for them.
David Wilkerson
#37. The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-
Brennan Manning
#38. Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action.
Mahatma Gandhi
#39. In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.
Ellen G. White
#40. 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
#42. Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.
Monica Johnson
#43. We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
#45. Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. The power of prayer does not lie in the number or earnestness of the words you use, but in a living faith that God Himself accepts both you and your prayer into His loving heart.
Andrew Murray
#47. We've assembled a group of people, your team, people who love you and pray for you. Take a look around the circle. These people represent thousands of words spent in prayer before the throne of God, begging for your safe return to the fold, begging for your peace, your faith, your heart.
Nicole O'Dell
#48. They knew only too well the intimate bond which unites faith with worship, 'the law of belief with the law of prayer,' and so, under the pretext of restoring it to its primitive form, they corrupted the order of the liturgy in many respects to adapt it to the errors of the Innovators.
Pope Leo XIII
#49. Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.
Henry B. Eyring
#50. Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.
David Lloyd-Jones
#51. [I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking of advice, we must reject and consider as a temptation whatever is suggested to the contrary.
Vincent De Paul
#52. Prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn't respond to our needs and requests.
Gerald L. Sittser
#53. Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.
Rich Mullins
#54. The day you learn to be publically specific in your prayer, that is the day you will discover power.
David Wilkerson
#55. In Fellowship; alone To God, with Faith, draw near, Approach His Courts, besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
Charles Wesley
#56. Say the prayer first thing in the morning when you open your eyes; then say it again before you go to sleep. Dream the prayer. Feel the prayer with your emotional body. Be the prayer; align your faith and intent with the prayer until your whole life is based on this prayer.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#58. Winnowing is more like a trip to the confessional ... transparent & vulnerable without being sentimental. These songs have elements that are more like prayers & pleas for faith. They're questionings and wrangling in the dark about the journey.
Bill Mallonee
#59. But in everything we should surrender our desires to God in prayer. Then we must wait for His response, that we can walk by faith and not by sight.
Adam Houge
#60. Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls.
John G. Lake
#61. Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
Barbara Johnson
#63. We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.
Peter Kreeft
#64. 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
#65. A prayer culture is fueled by experience not explanation. A passion to seek the Lord in prayer is more caught than taught.
Daniel Henderson
#67. It is time that conservative people of faith jointly commit to praying for our nation (daily, fervently!) and also rise up hand in hand in an effort to raise up a new generation of Franklins and Washingtons and Lincolns and Reagans.
Jonathan Falwell
#68. My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour.
Sunday Adelaja
#71. The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures.
Peter Kreeft
#72. May God grant your a great grace to live the fullness of life in the coming year.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did make a social blunder, for which I think he well deserved some minor castigation.
Kenzaburo Oe
#74. God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.
Paulo Coelho
#75. All of us need Aarons and Hurs in our lives. We need people who are strong when we're weak. We need people who are full of faith when we're running on empty. We need people who will fight for us on their knees. We all need a prayer circle!
Mark Batterson
#76. The most important of your affairs in my view is prayer; whoever prays regularly has protected his faith, but whoever neglects it, is bound to be more negligent in other issues of faith.
Umar
#77. The thing about prayer is it always feels like an act of faith - it forms some fragile new chamber in your heart, something empty and vulnerable that bleeds loneliness if God never answers you.
Kelly Loy Gilbert
#78. 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
#79. Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.
Peter Kreeft
#80. How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
Bill Hybels
#81. In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
W. H. Auden
#82. I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love.
Loretta Young
#84. The greatest place you can be is in a person's thoughts and prayers.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#87. Trust in God.
Do your duty.
Remember your prayers.
Get faith in the Lord, and take hold and build up Zion.
All will be right.
Wilford Woodruff
#88. O God, make us desperate, and grant us faith and boldness to approach Your throne and make our petitions known, knowing that in doing we link arms with Omnipotence and become instruments of Your eternal purposes being fulfilled on this earth.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#89. I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long.
Billy Graham
#90. Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.
Evagrius Ponticus
#91. Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
Eckhart Tolle
#92. If you bow your knees more often in prayer, you will feel the presence of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#93. The reason America is a special nation is because it was founded by people who were first on their knees before they were on their feet. We are a nation rooted in our faith.
Mike Huckabee
#94. Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.
Charles Spurgeon
#96. Miss Alcasid commented. "You know, when you believe, when you have faith in what you ask for, even though how insignificant it may seem to others, as long as your prayer is said with pure intentions, it will be granted." (Chapter 18)
Ryanne Salve
#97. When we pray, we pray according God's word which helps us to grow in faith.
Euginia Herlihy
#98. Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies.
Alvin Boyd Kuhn
#99. When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs ...
Pope John Paul II
#100. Godliness means responding to God's revelation in trust and obedience, faith and worship, prayer and praise, submission and service. Life must be seen and lived in the light of God's Word. This, and nothing else, is true religion.
J.I. Packer