Christian Quote by Silouan the Athonite

“Mercy, GOD, mercy!”: the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching…

— Eugene H. Peterson

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign…

— Matthew Henry

Prayer honors God, acknowledges His being, exalts His power, adores His providence, secures His aid.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

— Matthew Henry

“The most important requirement of prayer is firmly holding on to God and believing that he is merciful and compassionate—someone who wants to help…

— Martin Luther

When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.

— Matthew Henry

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He…

— Thomas Goodwin

“Prayer means God of mercy have pity on us.”

— Laiah Gifty Akita

When God intends great mercy for his people, he first of all sets them praying.

— Matthew Henry

Just having an awareness of God's mercy and compassion for us is a great motivation for us to be merciful and compassionate to other…

— Jonathan Morris

each of us has been given the ability to reach God with our prayers. ... Whatever form it takes, each prayer is an invitation…

— Betty Eadie

“Prayer opens on something purer and grander than mercy, something that puts aside the consciousness of fault, the residue of judgment that makes mercy…

— Marilynne Robinson