Quotes about Prayer
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
— John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
— John Bunyan
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
— John Bunyan
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words then your words without heart.
— John Bunyan
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
— John Bunyan
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer.Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God,setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
— John Calvin
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
— John Calvin
He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.
— John Calvin
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
— John Calvin
Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
— John Calvin
Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.
— John Calvin
We ought to contemplate providence not as curious and fickle persons are wont to do but as a ground of confidence and excitement to prayer. When he informs us that the hairs of our head are all numbered it is not to encourage trivial speculations but to instruct us to depend on the fatherly care of God which is exercised over these frail bodies.
— John Calvin