Great Quotes on Prayer

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

 -Jean Ingelow

Only man, among living things, says prayers. Or needs to.

-Peter Bowman

 What men usually ask of God when they pray is that two and two not make four.

-Anonymous

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.

-Henry Ward Beecher

They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear.

-Richard M. Milnes

Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing.

-Charles G. Finney

Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

-John Aikman Wallace

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.

-Samuel M. Shoemaker

By prayer we couple the powers of heaven to our helplessness, the powers which can capture strongholds and make the impossible possible.

-O. Hallesby

Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration, and many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.

-Norman Vincent Peale

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

-Mathew Henry

Men of God are always men of prayer.

-Henry T. Mahan

All who have walked with God have viewed prayer as the main business of their lives.

-Delma Jackson

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.

-Ruth Graham

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

-Satchel Paige

An agnostic found himself in trouble, and a friend suggested he pray. "How can I pray when I do not know whether or not there is a God?" he asked. "If you are lost in the forest," his friend replied, "you do not wait until you find someone before shouting for help."

-Dan Plies

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

-Phillip Melanchthon

If we are willing to spend hours on end to learn to play the piano, operate a computer, or fly an airplane, it is sheer nonsense for us to imagine that we can learn the high art of getting guidance through communion with the Lord without being willing to set aside time for it.

-Paul Rees

Time spent on the knees in prayer will do more to remedy heart strain and nerve worry than anything else.

-George David Stewart

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayer-less studies, prayer-less work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

-Samuel Chadwick

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.

-Guy H. King

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.

-E.M. Bounds

A day without prayer is a boast against God.

-Owen Carr

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

-Thomas Fuller

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

-Victor Hugo

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

-Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

-Erica Jong

This, then, is how you should pray: 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us today our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.                                                                   

-Jesus