Prayer Quotes

4623 quotes by 1779 authors

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F B Meyer
Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. — Francis Spellman
The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. — Richard Alleine
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end. — Charles Grandison Finney
Our prayers must mean something to us if they are to mean anything to God. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine… — Charles Spurgeon
If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ. — Charles Spurgeon
Prayer can never be in excess. — Charles Spurgeon
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. — Edward McKendree Bounds
I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a… — Hudson Taylor
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. — Martin Luther
If you cannot trust God for the temporal, how dare you trust him for the eternal? — Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him. — Billy Graham
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
We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them. — Vincent de Paul
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer. — Oswald Chambers
God will either give you what you ask, or something far better. — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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