Christian Prayer Quotes

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards.

Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory.

Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together.

Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer.

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming.

I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Negligence in prayer withers the inner man.

Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons. Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we strive daily to become better people. The Christmas message shows us that this love is for everyone. There is no one beyond its reach.

Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God.

Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might.

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

Prayer is the most important activity a born-again Christian can perform.

It should head your list of priorities, for certainly the world around us desperately needs prayer. Prayer will open the door for God to do a glorious work in these last days. Prayer will stem the tide of evil.

The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!

Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God.

Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.

A revival may be expected when Christians have a spirit of prayer for a revival.

That is, when they pray as if their hearts were set upon it. When Christians have the spirit of prayer for a revival. When they go about groaning out their hearts desire. When they have real travail of soul.

When I get to China, I will have no claim on any one for anything.

My claim will be alone in God and I must learn before I leave England to move men through God by prayer alone.

You are obliged to love your neighbor as yourself, and loving him, you ought to help him spiritually, with prayer, counseling him with words, and assisting him both spiritually and temporally, according to the need in which he may be, at least with your goodwill if you have nothing else.

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.