Prayer Quotes
4623 Prayer quotes by 1779 unique authors
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The only way to Heaven is prayer; a prayer of the heart, which every one is capable of, and not of reasonings which are the…
— Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
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Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get…
— John G. Lake
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Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays, unbelief does not.
— John Hardon
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This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large.
— Julian of Norwich
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How different the world would look, how different the state of our nation would be, if there were more sanctified priestly souls! These are souls…
— Basilea Schlink
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I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it…
— William Wilberforce
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We hear it said that a man will suffer in his life is he does not pray; I question it. What will suffer is the…
— Oswald Chambers
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If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast…
— Unknown Author
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A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.
— John Climacus
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Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed…
— Francois Fenelon
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When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for…
— John Climacus
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The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says 'Amen' and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God…
— Frank Laubach
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The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape,…
— Adoniram Judson
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A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.
— Oswald Chambers
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...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation - no organization - no…
— Richard Halverson
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Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.
— Kinky Friedman
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First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do…
— Rajneesh
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