Quotes about Prayer

Nay, in many cases open denials of prayer prove the most excellent answers, and God's not hearing us is the most signal audience. Therefore at the foot of every prayer subscribe "thy will be done," and thou shalt enjoy preventing mercies that thou never soughtest, and converting mercies to change all for the best, resting confident in this, that having asked according to his will he heareth thee.

M]ake much of the written word, and pray to God to copy his Bible in your conscience, and write a new book of his doctrine in your hearts.

Pray for your adversaries; remember how many thousands of talents of sins your Master hath forgiven you. Forgive you, therefore, your fellow-servant's one talent.

God knoweth that ye are His own. Wrestle, fight, go forward, watch, fear, believe, pray; and then ye have all the infallible symptoms of one of the elect of Christ within you.

I pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change God - it changes me.

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

My longings are best met when, in prayer, I simply let my heart beat in time with the Lord's.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

If we are to be just like Jesus, we must have regular time of talking to God and listening to his Word.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.