Quotes on Christian Prayer

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.

It matters little what form of prayer we adopt or how many words we use. What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him. That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.