Quotes On Prayer
I hope these quotes on prayer are a blessing to you. It is a good thing to let ourselves be encouraged, blessed, and even challenged by what other Christians have learned and lived.
Never tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee. – Thomas Adams
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. – Maltbie D. Babcock
Most of modern man’s troubles stem from too much time on his hands and not enough on his knees. – Ivern Boyett
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? – Corrie Ten Boom
Prayer is not learned in the classroom, but in the closet. – E.M. Bounds
The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer. – E.M. Bounds
The little regard we give prayer is evident from the little time we spend in it. – E.M. Bounds
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. – E.M. Bounds
Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other. – E.M. Bounds
To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life’s affairs. – E.M. Bounds
When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words be without heart. – John Bunyan
Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God and a scourge to Satan. – John Bunyan
Prayer – secret, fervent, believing prayer – lies at the root of all personal godliness. – William Carey
Hurry is the death of prayer. – Samuel Chadwick
The one concern of the devil is to keep the saints from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, he mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray. – Samuel Chadwick
God is still on the throne, we’re still on his footstool, and there’s only a knee’s distance between. – Jim Elliot
Those blessing are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks. – Thomas Goodwin
There is more you can do after you pray, but there is nothing you can do until you pray. – A.J. Gordon
Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers. – Matthew Henry
The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ. – Matthew Henry
What a man is on his knees before God, that he is – and nothing more. – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer. – Robert Murray M’Cheyne
There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. – F.B. Meyer
The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer but unoffered prayer. – F.B. Meyer
The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. – Dwight L. Moody
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. – George Muller
To know how to speak to God is more important than knowing how to speak to men. – Andrew Murray
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. – Isaac Newton
You are coming to a King, Large petitions with you bring for his grace and power are such none can ever ask too much. – John Newton
He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays. – John Owen
Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need. – A.W. Pink
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them. – A.W. Pink
The self-sufficient do not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. – Leonard Ravenhill
No one ever said at the end of his days: ‘I have read my bible too much; I have thought of God too much; I have prayed too much; I have been too careful with my soul. – J.C. Ryle
If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy. – W.E. Sangster
You have no time for the prayer meeting, but you have time enough to be brushing your hair to all eternity; you have no time to bend your knee, but plenty of time to make yourselves look smart and grand. – Charles Spurgeon
The goal of prayer is the ear of God. – C.H. Spurgeon
Large asking and large expectation on our part honour God. – A.L. Stone
If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. – Billy Sunday
Do not have your concert first and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and go first of all into harmony with Him. – Hudson Taylor
Could we be content to meet a loved on only in public? – Hudson Taylor
The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer. – R.A. Torrey
The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying…The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God. – R. A. Torrey
Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience. – A.W. Tozer
Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay. – Isaac Watts
Some people treat God as they do a lawyer; they go to him only when they are in trouble. – Anonymous
If we cannot go to God with a broken heart, let us go to him for one. – Anonymous
God has no reward for prayerless, faithless, loveless work. – Unknown
Prayer is an open highway to the heart of God. – Unknown
There are three answers to prayer – Yes! No! Wait! – Unknown
Prayerless pews make powerless pulpits. – Unknown
A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing. – Unknown
The prayers a man lives on his feet are just as important as those he says on his knees. – Unknown