Prayer Quotes

4623 Prayer quotes by 1779 unique authors

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The… — S. D Gordon
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. — S. D Gordon
Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat. — S. D Gordon
Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. — S. D Gordon
Prayer is partnership with God in His planet-sized purposes, and includes the "all things" beside, as an important detail of the whole. — S. D Gordon
Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces. — S. D Gordon
Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action. — S. D Gordon
A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life. — R. Kent Hughes
To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world. — Wayne Muller
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure. — Larry Dossey
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability… — Carol Zaleski
You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him. — Teresa of Avila
The most potent and acceptable prayer is the prayer that leaves the best effects. I don't mean it must immediately fill the soul with desire… — Teresa of Avila
How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer. — Teresa of Avila
Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it… — Teresa of Avila
Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks. — Teresa of Avila
Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and… — Teresa of Avila
I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me. — Teresa of Avila
Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it,… — Teresa of Avila
Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to,… — Teresa of Avila
One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time… — Teresa of Avila
Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated… — Teresa of Avila
Prayer in its highest form is agonizing soul sweat. — Leonard Ravenhill
The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray. — S. D Gordon
He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is… — Unknown Author

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