Top 100 Quotes About Prayer Bible
#1. I also able to graciously survive the PhD from the grace, which comes from prayer, bible reading, extensive story reading, fasting, fellowship, listen to music, daily dance and sacred writing.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#2. Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.
J.I. Packer
#3. We learn the language of prayer by immersing ourselves in the language that God uses to reveal Himself to us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#4. Constant prayer is the bridge that leads to life
Karen Gibbs
#5. The seed of God's Word must be planted in a person's heart before they can be born again.
Andrew Wommack
#6. No insistence in the Scripture is more pressing than that we must pray ... How clear it is, when the Bible is consulted, that the almighty God is brought directly into the things of this world by the prayers of His people.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#7. Prayer and Bible study are inseparably linked. Effective prayer is born out of the prompting of God's Spirit as we read His Word.
Billy Graham
#8. But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week.
Lynn Austin
#9. 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
#10. gets up very early each morning and spends two or three hours in prayer and then an hour or two reading the Bible.
K.P. Yohannan
#11. When asked, 'What is more important: praying or reading the Bible?' I ask, 'What is more important: breathing in or breathing out?
Russ Scalzo
#12. When you stop worrying about your problems and start praising God for His magnificent power you will experience His peace.
Elizabeth George
#13. The Bible's teaching on prayer leads overwhelmingly to one conclusion: Prayer changes things.
John Ortberg Jr.
#14. The Bible does say, "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all nations." Preaching, music, the reading of the Word-these things are fine-but they must never override prayer as the defining mark of God's dwelling.
Jim Cymbala
#15. Love and Trust God, It's a life time commitment!!!
John Dye
#16. Don't just read the Bible. Start circling the promises. Don't just make a wish. Write down a list of God-glorifying life goals. Don't just pray. Keep a prayer journal. Define your dream. Claim your promise. Spell your miracle.
Mark Batterson
#17. Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
J.I. Packer
#18. When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.
Corrie Ten Boom
#19. Be careful what you wish for or pray for, because whatever you wish for or pray for, you will have to take care of.
Lisa Bedrick
#20. By dipping us children in the Bible so often, they hoped, I think, to give our lives a serious tint, and to provide us with quaintly magnificent snatches of prayer to produce as charms while, say, being mugged for our cash or jewels.
Annie Dillard
#21. It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.
Rod Parsley
#22. This is the spirit of prayer
sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require
God will not accept.
Gardiner Spring
#23. The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
Matthew Henry
#24. My prayer is that God would continue to love me enough to refuse to answer the prayers I'm praying that I shouldn't be praying.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. You have no excuse to give ... Jonah prayed fervently even in the belly of the shark! Environment is not a barrier!
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.
Cyc Jouzy
#28. Prayer by itself is like a diet without protein! Prayer is important to our spiritual growth - but of even greater importance is God's Word, the Bible.
Billy Graham
#29. On my journey I have discovered that there is a huge difference between the traditional view of prayer and what the Bible teaches.
Paul Silway
#30. It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.
Cyc Jouzy
#31. Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.
David Platt
#32. In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.
Dwight L. Moody
#33. Sodom, which had no Bible, no preachers, no tracts, no prayer meetings, no churches, perished. How then will America and England be spared from the wrath of the Almighty, think you? We have millions of Bibles, scores of thousands of churches, endless preachers - and yet what sin!
Leonard Ravenhill
#34. Those with a low view of the Bible should not attempt listening prayer, for it can lead into dangerous gnostic listening.
Leanne Payne
#35. Faith, prayer, and the Word of God are the weapons God provides you with to fight spiritual battles.
Jim George
#36. The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
Dallas Willard
#38. A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.
Leonard Ravenhill
#39. A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#41. The Psalms are the prayer book of the Bible, but it is noteworthy that the first Psalm is not a prayer per se but a meditation - in
Timothy J. Keller
#42. The world's sewage system threatens to contaminate the stream of Christian thought. Satan will contest every hour you spend in Bible reading or prayer.
Billy Graham
#43. Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.
Frederick Buechner
#44. When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit.
Thomas Goodwin
#45. You ought to pray and read the Bible concurrently. You cannot pray effectively without reading the Bible and the vice versa.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#47. Christianity would have lacked a great essence without the Bible. A Christian who seldom devotes a little time to read the Bible is with a great question mark.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#48. I homeschool, so the start of the day is reading Bible scripture, memorization, and prayer.
Jodi Benson
#49. We are not to practice Bible reading, fasting, solitude, prayer, and other disciplines to make God happy with us but to make space to hear how happy God is with us because of Jesus.
Jimmy Davis
#50. Prayer is so great that wherever you look in the Bible, it is there. Why? Everywhere God is, prayer is. Since God is everywhere and infinitely great, prayer must be all-pervasive in our lives.
Timothy J. Keller
#51. Pray frequently as you read [the Bible] and you will discover a fellowship with God.
Billy Graham
#52. Many times I have been driven to prayer. When I was in Bible school I didn't know what to do with my life. I used to walk the streets ... and pray, sometimes for hours at a time. In His timing, God answered those prayers, and since then prayer has been an essential part of my life.
Billy Graham
#53. The Book of Psalms is the Bible's hymnbook. It will show you what it means to walk with God in prayer and praise.
Billy Graham
#54. How different our prayer life would be if we submitted our will to God's. Imagine if we asked only for things to benefit His kingdom.
Amber Albee Swenson
#55. The value of this book lies in its heartfelt simplicity.
Jason E. Royle
#56. Whatever it is you ask for in prayer, believing you have received it, it shall be yours.
Jesus
#57. If we will turn to God in prayer, and if we will seek His comfort through His Words in the Bible, we will find our hearts and minds healed.
Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson
#58. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
John Bunyan
#59. I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.
Anne Graham Lotz
#60. It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#61. In the Bible God speaks to us; in prayer we speak to God. Both are essential.
Billy Graham
#62. Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation ...
Abraham Lincoln
#63. Wake Up At The Most Silent Time And Read The BIBLE.
Cyc Jouzy
#64. We have a blood bought covenant with God that says we are His and He is ours. We are loved, and have a right to call to Him, call on Him and have His presence in our lives through worship, bible study and prayer - p. 14
Wanda L. Scott
#65. Anytime I'm not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I'm wasting my time. [Mark's brother-in-law, Matt , speaking]
Mark Batterson
#66. I've discovered it is not sufficient simply to try to take time for quietness but that I must, with all diligence, make time. Whatever keeps me from prayer, solitude, and the Bible, however good it appears, is my enemy if I am to be God's devoted friend and follower.
Tommy Barnett
#67. Never read the Bible as if it means something. Or at any rate don't try and mean it. Nor prayers. The liturgy is best treated and read as if it's someone announcing the departure of trains.
Alan Bennett
#68. Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.
F.B. Meyer
#69. A nation aimlessly drifting away from God is a nation for which prayer is a rudder and praise is a sail. And it is the man or woman on their knees that builds the former and gives wind to the latter.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#70. Between the Bible and the Holy Spirit, you have everything you need to grow spiritually. And the more you grow, the more God can use you.
Elizabeth George
#71. A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.
Donald Miller
#72. I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I don't see it meaning, 'I'm going to heaven after I die.' Before modern evangelicalism nobody accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, or walked down an aisle, or said the sinner's prayer.
Brian D. McLaren
#73. The Bible tells us that whenever we come before God, whatever our purpose or prayer request, we are always to come with a thankful heart.
David Jeremiah
#74. The failure of the citizens to pray for the country, will lead to its downfall.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#76. Praying God's solutions from the Word releases life, but praying negatively and focusing on your problems only energizes and strengthens them.
Andrew Wommack
#77. Prayer and temptation, the Bible and meditation, make a true minister of the gospel.
J.C. Ryle
#78. I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Francis W. Newman
#79. I urge new converts to take plenty of time in Bible study and prayer before getting on a public platform to testify.
Billy Graham
#80. Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
J.C. Ryle
#81. My dad used to sit me on his knee and read from the Bible to us. We were a praying family. Ours was a family of love and a family of prayer.
Roma Downey
#82. There's so much to be grateful for, and praising God for giving you His Spirit is a great place to begin.
Even if you don't think you have much to be grateful for right now, know that you can always praise God for the Holy Spirit's presence in your life!
Stormie O'martian
#83. The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.
Richard Cecil
#84. My soul crave to walk with the Creator.
My spirit sought to know the will of the Creator.
My mind seek to mediate on the Holy words spoken by the Creator.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#85. There is power through prayer. For many Christians, prayer is nothing special, just something we're supposed to do - go to church, tithe, read the Bible, pray. But prayer should be so much more than an item on our "to do" lists.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#87. I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way
Cotton Mather
#88. Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.
Bob Buford
#89. Connect with positive people who will stand in faith with you and lift you up in prayer. Study the Word of God and put your faith in action, for the Bible declares, "Faith without deeds is dead" (James 2:26)
Jocelyn Green
#91. One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to look
vertically upwards
Oche Otorkpa
#92. I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.
Roma Downey
#94. Don't forget: Without fuel, a fire grows cold - and without the "fuel" of the Bible, prayer, and Christian fellowship, our faith grows cold.
Billy Graham
#95. The zeal to pray and desire to read the scriptures can transform many lives.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#96. The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word.
Billy Graham
#97. The devil is alive and kicking. But if you are in Christ and follow the rules of daily Bible study, prayer, and witnessing, he has no power over you.
Billy Graham
#98. Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it.
J. Wilbur Chapman
#99. I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
J.C. Ryle
#100. God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church.
Henry Blackaby
