850 Quotes About Prayer

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839
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
- Corrie Ten Boom
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838
Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.
- Andrew Murray
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837
God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.
- E.M. Bounds
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836
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.
- F.B. Meyer
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835
When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.
- R.A. Torrey
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834
Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.
- Andrew Murray
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833
As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.
- F.B. Meyer
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832
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
- Augustine
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831
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
- John Bunyan
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830
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
- George Herbert
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829
Prayer is the link that connects us with God.
- A. B. Simpson
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828
Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.
- E.M. Bounds
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827
Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of Him that we are capable of in this life.
- William Law
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826
Time spent in prayer is never wasted.
- Francois Fenelon
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825
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
- William Temple
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824
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words, and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell, and then running away as fast as he can go.
- E.M. Bounds
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823
Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.
- Dwight L. Moody
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822
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
- Martin Luther
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821
Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
- William Booth
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820
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks
- Phillips Brooks
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All that God is, and all that God has, is at the disposal of prayer. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do everything, prayer is omnipotent.
- R.A. Torrey
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818
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.
- G. Campbell Morgan
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817
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
- Blaise Pascal
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816
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
- E.M. Bounds
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815
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
- F.F. Bruce
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814
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther
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813
Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do.
- Andrew Murray
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812
In prayer we can approach God with complete assurance of His ability to answer us. There is no limit to what we can ask, if it is according to His will.
- John F. Walvoord
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811
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be; the mightier the forces against evil everywhere.
- E.M. Bounds
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810
Prayer is the master strategy that God gives for the defeat and rout of Satan.
- Wesley L. Duewel
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809
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
- Philip Yancey
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808
There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.
- Oswald Chambers
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807
Prayer can never be in excess.
- Charles Spurgeon
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806
The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
- Martin Luther
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805
Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.
- E.M. Bounds
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804
We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances.
- E.M. Bounds
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803
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this always obey such an impulse.
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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802
Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.
- John R. Mott
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801
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
- Augustine
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800
Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.
- Alistair Begg
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799
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.
- J. C. Ryle
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798
Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
- John Calvin
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797
Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.
- Oswald Chambers
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796
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
- Phillips Brooks
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795
I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
- Phillips Brooks
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794
God waits for you to communicate with Him. You have instant, direct access to God. God loves mankind so much, and in a very special sense His children, that He has made Himself available to you at all times.
- Wesley L. Duewel
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793
When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
- Andrew Murray
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792
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
- William Law
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791
O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.
- Andrew Murray
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790
Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray, for prayer requires strength.
- Hudson Taylor
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