Secret Prayer Quotes

#1. The coming revival must begin with a great revival of prayer. It is in the closet, with the door shut, that the sound of abundance of rain will first be heard. An increase of secret prayer with ministers will be the sure harbinger of blessing.

Andy Murray

#2. Had many men spent but half that time in secret prayer, that they have spent in seeking after the philosopher's stone, how happy might they have been!

Thomas Brooks

#3. O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.

Andy Murray

#4. Above all be much in secret prayer and meditation. By this you will fetch the heavenly fire that must kindle your sacrifice: remember you cannot decline and neglect your duty to your own hurt alone, many will be losers by it as well as you.

Richard Baxter

#5. Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

Adoniram Judson

#6. To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

Ole Hallesby

#7. The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of
souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and
solitude.

Ole Hallesby

#8. I ought to pray before seeing any one. Often when I sleep long, or meet with others early, it is eleven or twelve o'clock before I begin secret prayer. I feel it is far better to begin with God-to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before it is near another.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#9. 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

#10. Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Ellen G. White

#11. Cheese! I exclaimed. It was a secret prayer, whose meaning was known only to God and to me.

Alan Bradley

#12. Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.

Mark Batterson

#13. It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

Oswald Chambers

#14. From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the ostentatious blaring of trumpets, but in the secret place of prayer.

Paul Billheimer

#15. Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

Ole Hallesby

#16. Shut the world out, withdraw from all worldly thoughts and occupations, and shut yourself in alone with God, to pray to Him in secret. Let this be your chief object in prayer, to realize the presence of your heavenly Father.

Andy Murray

#17. Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something from him. It is above all fellowship with God and being brought under the power of his holiness and love, till he takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship.

Andrew Murray

#18. Spend more time in study and prayer. That's the secret of successful evangelism.

Billy Graham

#19. Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

William Carey

#20. Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

Katy Perry

#21. It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.

Leslie Ludy

#22. A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

John Owen

#23. Prayer simply means a longing of the heart, it is the wish felt, - it may be expressed, or not expressed. It may take the form of human language or it may never be uttered at all; still it is a prayer, if God only hears it in the secret recess of the heart.

Keshub Chandra Sen

#24. Prayer is the secret weapon that restores your trust in God.

Elizabeth George

#25. The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

S.D. Gordon

#26. In the secret of night, my prayer climbs like the liana, My prayer is, and I am not. It grows, and I perish. I have only my hard breath, my reason and my madness. I cling to the vine of my prayer. I tend it at the root of the stalk of night.

Gabriela Mistral

#27. The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

Samuel Chadwick

#28. I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.

J. Sidlow Baxter

#29. Before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

Andrea Gibson

#30. Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.

Andy Murray

#31. The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God.

Martin Luther

#32. I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.

Alexander Whyte

#33. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. He

Rabindranath Tagore

#34. Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

William Wilberforce

#35. The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.

Jeremy Taylor

#36. Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret of good judgment.

Charles Brent

#37. When we know beyond any doubt that we already speak the feeling language of prayer, we awaken that part of us that can never be stolen, lost, or taken away. This is the secret mode of prayer.

Gregg Braden

#38. Familiarity with the secret place is familiarity with the glory place. Abide in his presence.

Ikechukwu Joseph

#39. 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

#40. God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.

Thomas Brooks

#41. There is comfort in keeping what is sacred inside us not as a secret, but as a prayer.

Terry Tempest Williams

#42. Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.
The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.
By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.

Toba Beta

#43. Prayer in secret is life finding expression in the realized Presence of God our Father.

Samuel Chadwick

#44. A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.

Thomas Watson

#45. Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength.

Sri Chinmoy

#46. Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

Jean Vanier

#47. Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems.
Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Toba Beta

#48. A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of
prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the
congregational setting.

Richard Burr

#49. We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#50. Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt.
Prayer makes it weaker.

Toba Beta

#51. My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

Justin Baldoni

#52. Meditation and prayer are my secret weapons, and when I use them, I can move mountains.

Syesha Mercado

#53. The lover of silence draws close to God. He talks to Him in secret and God enlightens him.

John Climacus

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Mental prayer is nothing else but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with Him.

Teresa Of Avila

#57. What is the secret of your serenity?" a student asked Sophia
"Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable," she replied.

David W. Jones

#58. I have abandoned all particular forms of devotion, all prayer techniques. My only prayer practice is attention. I carry on a habitual, silent, and secret conversation with God that fills me with overwhelming joy.

Brother Lawrence

#59. Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

Oswald Chambers

#60. Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

George Arthur Buttrick