Top 100 When We Pray Quotes
#1. A certain joyful, though humble, confidence becomes us when we pray in the Mediator's name. It is due to Him; when we pray in His name it should be without wavering. Remember His merits, and how prevalent they must be. "Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace."
Nehemiah Adams
#2. Samuel Chadwick said, "The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless works and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray!" Prayer
Neal Pirolo
#3. Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.
Mark Hart
#4. If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.
James Van Praagh
#5. When we pray "as it is in heaven," we are saying that as heaven has no sickness, poverty, disasters, so it is on earth.
Paul Silway
#6. When we pray, it's the Holy Spirit Who makes the divine presence real to our spirits, and then we seem to 'feel close' to a living God. We are spiritually overwhelmed by divine glory.
Chris Oyakhilome
#7. But God always has a holy surprise up His sovereign sleeve. And when we pray, God throws surprise parties!
Mark Batterson
#8. When we pray for the Spirit, we are not praying for an answer; we are praying for God to enter us, to fill us with his presence, his thoughts, and his words.
James Bryan Smith
#9. When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
Alexis Carrel
#10. When we pray for guidance in a group, we create a positive force field and align our personal energies towards a single direction.
Catherine Carrigan
#11. We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done.
Loren Cunningham
#12. The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#13. So many of us limit our praying because we are not reckless in our confidence in God. In the eyes of those who do not know God, it is madness to trust Him, but when we pray in the Holy Spirit we begin to realize the resources of God, that He is our perfect heavenly Father, and we are His children.
Oswald Chambers
#14. When we pray, we must begin by conceiving God in full and vigorous images, but we must go on to acknowledge the inadequacy of them and to adhere nakedly to the imageless truth of God.
Austin Farrer
#15. God is love, and when we pray we are drawing near to love, and all our hatred must melt away like the snow melts when the sun shines on it in spring. Leave Lucien to God, Annette. He rewards both good and evil, but remember, He loves Lucien just the same as He loves Dani.
Patricia St. John
#16. It is not the posture of the body, but the attitude of the heart that counts when we pray ... The important thing is not the position of the body but the condition of the soul.
Billy Graham
#17. Puja (worship) is offering to God, prathana (prayer) is demanding from God. When we pray by offering all our karma and even ourselves to God, the prayer fruitifies.
Mahesh Babu
#18. Prayer is the key ingredient of the church. The enemy hates it when we pray.
Jacob Peterson
#19. When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries.
Chris Oyakhilome
#20. Faith isn't faith until it's all we have to hold on to and knowledge fails us. When we pray for faith, we automatically pray for darkness. Think about it.
Joan D. Chittister
#21. It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
Billy Graham
#22. If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.
Thomas Watson
#23. Why do we close our eyes when we pray, cry, kiss, or dream? Because the most beautiful things in life are not seen but felt by the heart.
Denzel Washington
#24. The one concern of the Devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer-less work, prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
#25. The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
Bill Hybels
#26. When we pray we should ask the Lord to reveal His will to us and then pray accordingly, act obediently and wait patiently.
Betty Malz
#27. If only we knew what was happening when we pray, we would never cease to pray.
Louie Giglio
#28. When we pray, we relieve ourselves of responsibility. We let go and let God. We take our hands off and put our concerns into the hands of Almighty God. And trust me, He can handle whatever we put in His hands.
Mark Batterson
#30. I wanted my sons to know that, whatever kinds of prayers we utter, not matter how wretched, God hears them, even when we pray badly.
Wendy Murray
#31. When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.
Austin O'Malley
#32. To do anything in the Lord's name means to do it for his purposes. When we pray in Jesus' name, we are petitioning God to bring glory to Jesus and we are asking for his will to be done in everything so that he will be honored above all.
Bryan Chapell
#33. When we pray as the Scriptures teach us to pray, we learn that prayer is a relationship of dependence. It is a child communicating with his or her heavenly Father.
Judson Cornwall
#34. It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.
David Jeremiah
#35. It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
Ole Hallesby
#36. And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for "we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying."
Ambrose
#37. When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.
Iyanla Vanzant
#38. We do not become less needy, less dependent when we pray; we become more needy, more dependent, which is to say, more human.
Eugene H. Peterson
#39. When we pray, we pray according God's word which helps us to grow in faith.
Euginia Herlihy
#41. When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.
Sri Chinmoy
#42. When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
Hudson Taylor
#43. When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us.
St. Jerome
#45. Our prayers can go where we cannot ... there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.
Brother Andrew
#46. When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.
Eric Ludy
#47. Saint Francis. "When we pray to God," he said, "we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
Wayne W. Dyer
#48. The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too
busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.
Corrie Ten Boom
#49. Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.
Shannon L. Alder
#50. We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.
Thomas Watson
#51. When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.
Joyce Meyer
#52. What is in our hearts when we pray has more effect on whether our prayers are answered than the actual prayer itself. That's why, when we come before God to pray, He asks us to first confess anything in our hearts that shouldn't be there. He does that so nothing will separate us from Him.
Stormie O'martian
#53. If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.
Isidore Of Seville
#54. When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.
Sunday Adelaja
#55. It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.
Esther Smith
#56. Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate.
C.S. Lewis
#57. Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are the breathing of the Holy Spirit; as it were spiritual air and also light, spiritual fire, spiritual food and spiritual raiment.
John Of Kronstadt
#58. We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.
Katherine Marie Dyckman
#59. When we pray with our hearts and our souls I think we are being heard.
John Assaraf
#60. Satan dreads nothing but prayer. His one concern is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.
Samuel Chadwick
#61. Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying
Joyce Meyer
#62. It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.
Peter Kreeft
#63. When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
Oswald Chambers
#64. When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means?
Oswald Chambers
#66. When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.
Cyprian
#67. When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
Andy Murray
#68. Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle.
Stormie O'martian
#69. The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.
Anthony Of Padua
#70. 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
#71. When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#72. Why is it that we feel bad when "all" we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.
Dillon Burroughs
#73. I pray for bravery and guts, for honesty and discernment. I know you have a lot to lose - we all do when we lay down our certainties and our black-and-white thinking.
Sarah Bessey
#74. What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
A.C. Dixon
#75. Most prayers are not really questions ... and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer ... We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves ... that the world is changed.
Douglas Wood
#76. When our fears and anxiety prevent sleep, we can pray instead of scanning Google. We can ask for guidance from the Lord when we are confronted with possible problems. He is faithful to answer and grant peace for the night. Father,
Sandra Peoples
#77. I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray Him to empty us.
Dwight L. Moody
#78. We waste our lives when we do not pray and think and dream and plan and work toward magnifying God in all spheres of life. God created us for this: to live our lives in a way that makes him look more like the greatness and the beauty and the infinite worth that he really is.
John Piper
#79. I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else ... and I will pray for you.
Gloria Gaynor
#80. I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty ... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.
David Jeremiah
#81. What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!
John Flavel
#82. When we cannot see, we don't judge. Small wonder when we kiss, cry, laugh, make love, are in pain, pray and listen to music, we close our eyes.
Sabine Shah
#83. This is a hard planet, and we're a vulnerable species. And all I can do is pray: Help. When
Anne Lamott
#84. Our people do not want barren theories from their democracy. Maury Maverick has expressed very quaintly, but clearly, what they really want when he says: 'We Americans want to talk, pray, think as we please and eat regular'.
Robert H. Jackson
#85. If when we come to prayer our hearts feel dull and unspiritual, we should not try to argue ourselves out of it. Rather, we should admit it frankly and pray our way through.
A.W. Tozer
#86. Mythology is about Good VS Evil, is it not? We can pretend runes and astrology and reading tea leaves ... But to whom do we pray when we are terrified? Carl Sagan's essays?
John Steakley
#87. When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.
Ole Hallesby
#88. We pray to obey God, not to 'play God'. We pray, not to change God's mind, but to change our own; not to command God, but to let God command us. We pray to 'let God be God'. Prayer is our obedience to God even when it asks God for things, for God has commanded us to ask (Mt. 7:7).
Peter Kreeft
#89. When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
Ole Hallesby
#90. We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.
Ole Hallesby
#91. And that's the core of prayer: admitting that just maybe, there's something going on that we can't see. So when I'm afraid, I pray, and I ask for God's help, that I will be able to see something I wasn't able to see before, or at least trust him to do the seeing.
Shauna Niequist
#92. As God's representative on the earth, He has given us the authority to speak for Him. When we speak under the leading of the Holy Spirit, we speak as His voice on the earth. During strategic times, the Lord will prompt us to pray prayers that will bring breakthrough.
Barbara Wentroble
#93. There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.
Richard Matheson
#94. The author says our prayers are misdirected when we ask God that He help us to love Him more. If we pray to him more, we will love Him more.
Jen Pollock Michel
#95. I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Nancy Pelosi
#96. With the help of the Holy Ghost, we can watch over ourselves. We can pray to recognize and reject the first thoughts of sin. We can pray to recognize a warning not to speak words which would hurt or tempt someone else. And we can, when we must, pray for the humility and the faith to repent.
Henry B. Eyring
#97. Good Things Never Stay ..
This what People Say..
So,When I met you I knew That Oneday ,
You Will just Go Away !
STILL ... I'll pray & pray
That we walk The Same WAY ( :
Mohammed Abdel-Mohsen
#98. We don't have to convince an unwilling God to come and refresh us with His presence. He's for it. But, He cannot be manipulated. But when sincere hearts who know they cannot do His work nor His will without Him, humbly pray, He will answer.
J. Edwin Orr
#99. We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.
Johanna Spyri
#100. And when we feel forsaken, hopeless, and in despair, we pray to one who walked this path before us.
Adam Hamilton
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