Quotes about Prayer

I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of pastors, few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, little passion; many interferers, few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere.

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

You can't live wrong and pray right.

Preacher, keep your knees on the ground & your eyes on the throne.

LORD strengthen me where I am too weak and weaken me where I am too strong!

If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.

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!

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

The secret of praying is praying in secret.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

Yet ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen, degrees or no degrees.