True Prayer Quotes
24 quotes by 20 authors
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...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
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Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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True prayer is a lonely business.
— Samuel Chadwick
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We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that…
— Ole Hallesby
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True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy.
— Ray Stedman
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Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than…
— Alexander Whyte
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A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
— Charles Spurgeon
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God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
— Adoniram Judson
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The Divine rejoices in your being happy. God, or the Creation, is so happy when you are happy. When you dance, sing, and jump up…
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
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Remember from this very moment: always choose that which is good for you and good for others. Choose creativity. Become a blessing to existence, because…
— Rajneesh
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
— Brent Weeks
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True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.
— Mary Baker Eddy
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True prayer is measured by weight, not by length
— Charles Spurgeon
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True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.
— Billy Graham
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If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.
— Johannes Tauler
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Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.
— Johannes Tauler
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Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in…
— Edith Stein
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Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or…
— John Wesley
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True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father…
— Francois Fenelon
Who Wrote These True Prayer Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 24 True Prayer Quotes as follows: