Quotes about Prayer
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.
— Phillips Brooks
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Abiding fully means praying much.
— Andrew Murray
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
— Oswald Chambers
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
— Amy Carmichael
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.
— Joseph Addison
The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.
— Maude Royden
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
— Mark Twain
We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.
— John Piper
To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
— John Bunyan
For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
— St. Therese of Lisieux