Prayer Quotes

An earnest prayer is balm to the soul.

Surr-Durr

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:

Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Shakespeare

Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.

Martin Luther

I say my prayers with my eyes open so I can hear what I’m saying.

Robin aged 5

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

G E Lessing

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

He prayeth well, who loveth well

Both man and bird and beast.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There are only two joys – One is having God answer all your prayers, the other is not receiving the answer to all your prayers.

Joni Eareckson Tada

Why worry … Pray

Prayer means keeping company with God who is already present.

Philip Yancey

God speaks to us through His Word, and we speak to Him through prayer.

We can, and should, come before God with our needs, but we must make those needs subordinate to God’s calling in our lives.

Turn pain points into prayer points.

When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart.

John Bunyan

He prays not at all who does not press his plea.

E M Bounds

Long before we pray, God is working on an answer.

Kenneth Cox

Oh Lord, help me

To be calm when things go wrong,

To persevere when things are difficult,

To be helpful to those in need,

And to be sympathetic to those whose

Hearts are heavy.

It is impossible for the soul to flourish while prayer is neglected.

Ellen G White

Worry less, pray more.

Give expression to your sorrows and ask God for the help you need.

Ellen G White

Pray hardest when its hardest to pray.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

Mother Teresa

No matter how alone you think you are, God is always just a prayer away.

Don’t worry about anything. Instead pray about everything. Tell God what you need and thank Him for all He has done.

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him.

Ellen G White

Prayer is for the benefit of man, not God.

Kant

If you ask God to fix something, he won’t just paint over it, he’ll fix it from the inside.

The fewer the words the better the prayer.

Gellert

Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.

Gurnall

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Ellen G White

Prayer is the spiritual pulse of the renewed soul.

O Winslow

Pray, and let God worry.

Martin Luther

A whole lifetime is not too long to spend in prayer.

J Andreas

Prayer is a creature’s strength, his very breath and being.

Tupper

Prayer renders affliction less sorrowful, and joy more pure.

Lamennais

We never need prayer so much as when we are indisposed to it.

Mrs Cameron

More things are wrought by prayer than the world dreams of.

Tennyson

Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

Bunyan

When we cannot pray words, we can pray thoughts, and God hears us.

John Ii

Prayer is the key that opens the gate of heaven.

Frederika Bremer

A Christian will find his parenthesis for prayer, even through his busiest hours.

Lord Burleigh

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

G Benson

They that spend their days in faith and prayer, shall end their days in peace and comfort.

J Mason

Prayer is to the penitent heart a sweet source of consolation, long even before the answer comes.

J S Knox

Prayer purifies; it is a self-preached sermon.

Richter

Were our ill-judged prayers to be always granted, how many would be ruined at their own request.

J A James

Pray in thy heart unto God at the beginning of all thy works, that thou mayest bring them to a good conclusion.

Socrates

Prayer is a haven to the shipwrecked mariner, an anchor to them that are sinking in the waves, a staff to the limbs that totter, a mine of jewels to the poor, a security to the rich, a healer of diseases and a guardian of health. Prayer at once secures the continuance of our blessings, and dissipates the cloud of our calamities.

St Chrysostom