Quotes about Prayer
Put legs to your prayers
— Ray Comfort
Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.
— JI Packer
Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.
— Timothy Keller
Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.
— Anne Graham Lotz
Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.
— Timothy Keller
Purity is the fruit of prayer.
— Mother Teresa
If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.
— JC Ryle
Make sickness itself a prayer.
— Francis de Sales
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.
— Dante Alighieri
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whole prayer is nothing but love.
— St. Augustine
Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.
— Andy Stanley