Our Prayers Quotes

300 quotes by 212 authors

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. — Aesop
The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered. — Dwight L. Moody
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. — J. Sidlow Baxter
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour. — Saint Francis de Sales
Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not… — Joyce Meyer
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers
Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the… — Dwight L. Moody
Shall I give you yet another reason why you should pray? I have preached my very heart out. I could not say any more than… — Charles Spurgeon
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter, not with vain repetitions, but with urgent repetitions. We repeat, not to count… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get… — Edward McKendree Bounds
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children, just as far as God's ability, goodness… — Edward McKendree Bounds
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature. — John Calvin
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor. — Matthew Henry
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows… — Oswald Chambers
God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God. — Oswald Chambers
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it… — Oswald Chambers
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our… — Oswald Chambers

Who Wrote These Our Prayers Quotes

212 authors contributed a total of 300 Our Prayers Quotes, led by these top contributors: