Quotes on Prayer

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that ,but I've got a long way to go.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

While praying, listen to the words very carefully. When your heart is attentive, your entire being enters your prayer without your having to force it.

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

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

It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the life of the Son of God within him, which is nourished not by food but by prayer...Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see mighty wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not."

To pray well is the better half of study.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

When you sing, you pray twice.

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.