Quotes About The Purpose Of Prayer

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

Oswald Chambers

#2. 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

#3. The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

Marianne Williamson

#4. The purpose of prayer is not for the disciple to give information to God. The purpose of prayer is intimacy with God.

David Platt

#5. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life isn't to make you number one in the world's eyes but to make Him number one in your life.

Ravi Zacharias

#6. The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

John Stott

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

Julian Of Norwich

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

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

Chuck Smith

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.

Thomas Kinkade

#15. Prayer is the master key that unlocks all the gifts and visions for us to live the life of purpose.

Euginia Herlihy

#16. 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

#17. Make the most of prayer ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

Charles Spurgeon

#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. The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.

Oswald Chambers

#20. The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

R.A. Torrey

#21. Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the minds of the people are more attracted to worldly things than to prayer. The lips repeat the prayer mechanically like a phonograph record, but the mind wanders to other places. (23-24)

Swami Satchidananda

#22. Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. Faith is the inner sense of knowing that with divine order working on your side, all things will come together for your good. Faith is knowing that there is a divine plan and purpose for everything in life

Iyanla Vanzant

#23. The basic purpose of prayer is not to bend God's will to mine but to mold my will into his.

Timothy Keller

#24. Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.

Evelyn Underhill

#25. The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#26. In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

David Connolly

#27. The purpose of theology is to safeguard against misunderstandings that frustrate a Christian life of prayer.

Andrew Louth

#28. We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Oswald Chambers

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Billy Graham

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

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

Marianne Williamson

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

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

Catherine Marshall

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.

Philip Yancey

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

Charles L. Allen

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

Mark Batterson

#46. 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

#47. 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