Quotes about Prayer
Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.
— Ezra Taft Benson
No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.
— Paulo Coelho
I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.
— JC Ryle
Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.
— DL Moody
Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
— Thomas Merton
God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.
— Jurgen Moltmann
All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.
— John Wesley
The most fervent prayer meetings are in hell.
— Leonard Ravenhill
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
— Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
— Brother Lawrence