Praying Quotes

2627 quotes by 1457 authors

To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to… — 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
The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of… — Edward McKendree Bounds
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down… — Edward McKendree Bounds
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it. — Francois Fenelon
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me. — Francois Fenelon
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will. — Frederick William Robertson
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. — George Herbert
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can… — J C Ryle
We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or… — John Bunyan
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom… — John Calvin
I have to hurry all day to get time to pray. — Martin Luther
The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes. — Martin Luther
We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of… — Matthew Henry
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in… — Oswald Chambers
Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door… — Oswald Chambers
It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life… — Oswald Chambers
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no… — Oswald Chambers

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