Quotes about Prayer
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
— St. Augustine
You can delegate many things, but prayer is not one of them.
— AW Tozer
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
— JC Ryle
God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair.
— Martin Luther
God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.
— Girolamo Savonarola
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
— E Stanley Jones
Jesus Christ carries on intercession for us in heaven; the Holy Ghost carries on intercession in us on earth; and we the saints have to carry on intercession for all men.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos
— Beth Moore
Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.
— AW Pink
If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.
— John Wesley
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.
— Thomas Merton