Quotes about Prayer
We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
— Oswald Chambers
The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer.
— Watchman Nee
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.
— Mark Batterson
But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.
— John Milton
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
— Thomas Watson
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.
— AW Tozer
If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
— Johannes Tauler
Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
— AW Tozer
It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.
— Martin Luther
Scriptures were just words on a page and my prayers failed to lift.
— Lynn Austin