Quotes about Prayer
Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.
— Teresa of Avila
My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.
— DL Moody
Pears like I prayed all the time, 'bout my work, everywhere, I prayed an' groaned to the Lord.
— Harriet Tubman
My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God.
— David Brainerd
The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.
— Rick Warren
The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
— Oswald Chambers
As we remember prayer and take time to turn to the scriptures, our lives will be infinitely more blessed and our burdens will be made lighter.
— Thomas Monson
Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.
— David Jeremiah
No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.
— Max Lucado
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.
— JC Ryle
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
— William Wilberforce
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