Quotes about Prayer
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God not of the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
When I pray coincidences happen and when I don't they don't.
— William Temple
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
— Oswald Chambers
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
— Oswald Chambers
The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.
— Anonymous
God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.
— Anonymous
Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.
— John Newton
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.
— Adoniram Judson
Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.
— Anonymous
When you go to your knees God will help you stand up to anything.
— Anonymous
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
— Oswald Chambers
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.
— Oswald Chambers