216 Prayer Quotes to Inspire and Uplift Your Soul

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Famous Prayer Quotes

Prayer is the noble supplication which we lift up to the throne of the Most High. It is the most efficient means to obtain from God the graces which we need. — Pier Giorgio Frassati

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. — Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised. — John Bunyan

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God — Mother Teresa

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

Prayer is the link that connects us with God. - A. B. Simpson

Prayer is the link that connects us with God. — A. B. Simpson

Prayer is the life of the soul. — Madame de Stael

Prayer is the oxygen of the soul. — Pio of Pietrelcina

Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella. — Barbara Johnson

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. - George Herbert

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. — George Herbert

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God. — Martin Luther

True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy. — Ray Stedman

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. — Ambrose

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. — Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest. — Thomas Hooker

Short Prayer Quotes

  • Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. — John Calvin
  • All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. — Isaac Newton
  • Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart. — Maximilian Kolbe
  • In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. — John Bunyan
  • The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer. — Barack Obama
  • If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. — Meister Eckhart
  • A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men. — Leonard Ravenhill
  • Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink
  • You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works. — Pope Francis
  • Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. — David Livingstone

Prayer Image Quotes

You have one business on earth – to save souls. - John Wesley quote

You have one business on earth – to save souls. — John Wesley

Prayer quote If the only prayer you ever say is "thank you", that will be enough.
If the only prayer you ever say is "thank you", that will be enough.
One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism! - T.L. Osborn quote

One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism! — T.L. Osborn

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. - John Knox quote

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. — John Knox

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. - William Carey quote

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

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means. - Chuck Smith quote

There are more battles won through prayer than by any other means. — Chuck Smith

Prayer quote Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm.
Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm.
Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed. - Teresa of Avila quote

Prayer is an act of love. Words are not needed. — Teresa of Avila

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. - William Wilberforce quote

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer. — William Wilberforce

My longing for truth was a single prayer. - Edith Stein quote

My longing for truth was a single prayer. — Edith Stein

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. - Dwight L. Moody quote

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure. — Dwight L. Moody

No one can pray and worry at the same time. - Max Lucado quote

No one can pray and worry at the same time. — Max Lucado

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. - Irving Berlin quote

The song is ended, but the melody lingers on. — Irving Berlin

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. - J. C. Ryle quote

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer. — J. C. Ryle

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray. - Chuck Smith quote

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray. — Chuck Smith

Pray as you can, not as you can't. - Johnny Appleseed quote

Pray as you can, not as you can't. — Johnny Appleseed

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. - Reinhold Niebuhr quote

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. — Reinhold Niebuhr

A well-spent day brings happy sleep. - Leonardo da Vinci quote

A well-spent day brings happy sleep. — Leonardo da Vinci

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life. - Bryant H. McGill quote

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life. — Bryant H. McGill

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. - Cokie Roberts quote

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. — Cokie Roberts

If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go. - Keith Green quote

If you don't have a definite call to stay here, you are called to go. — Keith Green

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. - Helen Keller quote

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. — Helen Keller

Prayer quote Prayer is when you talk to god, meditation is when god talks to you.
Prayer is when you talk to god, meditation is when god talks to you.

Healing Prayer Quotes

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God — John G. Lake

Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others. — Michael E. DeBakey

Prayer heals, especially when it’s practiced at 5.5 breaths a minute. — James Nestor

Prayer quote Prayer is the key to heaven but faith unlocks the door.
Prayer is the key to heaven but faith unlocks the door.

. . . in the spiritual life you must practice. And the only way to practice is by trying to solve your problems with prayer. This develops your spiritual power and it also trains you to use that spiritual power in the most effective way. — Emmet Fox

Prayer is a great tower of strength, a pillar of unending righteousness, a mighty force that moves mountains and saves souls. Through it the sick are healed, the dead are raised, and the Holy Spirit is poured out without measure upon the faithful. — Bruce R. McConkie

Death cannot kill what never dies. — William Penn

Prayer quote God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is no.
God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is no.

Next time you pray any kind of prayer, whether it be for the resolution of healing, or for a house, or for a car, or for a husband, or for a family conflict, or for a solution to a problem, tell Him he can say yes or no. Because in the end, you're a winner. Every time. — Bo Sanchez

Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are free. — Ted Loder

Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name. — A. B. Simpson

Angels, please help me remember to direct blessings and prayers to everyone I meet today. Please send extra healing energy through me to all my relationships. I ask that each encounter I have bring gifts to everyone involved. — Doreen Virtue

Good Morning Prayer Quotes

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish. — Adrian Rogers

Good morning, this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day. — Wayne Dyer

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God. — Charles Spurgeon

Prayer quote If the only prayer you said was "Thank you", that would be enough.
If the only prayer you said was "Thank you", that would be enough.

Good morning, Lord! What are You up to today? Can I be a part of it? Thank You. Amen. — Norman Grubb

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.' — Anna Letitia Barbauld

It is a good thing to let prayer be the first business of the morning and the last of the evening. — Martin Luther

Inspirational Prayer Quotes

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice? — David Livingstone

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. — John Piper

Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible. — Corrie Ten Boom

Prayer quote What you cannot achieve with your efforts, you can achieve with prayer.
What you cannot achieve with your efforts, you can achieve with prayer.

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! — Andrew Murray

By your own soul, learn to live. If some men force you, take no heed. If some men hate you, have no care. Sing your song, dream your dreams Hope your hopes, and pray your prayers. — Bo Schembechler

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. — George Muller

Prayer quote Prayer is the key of the morning and bolt of the evening.
Prayer is the key of the morning and bolt of the evening.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? — Corrie Ten Boom

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one — Bruce Lee

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. — Charles Spurgeon

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

Power Of Prayer Quotes

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. — R. A. Torrey

Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

They who pray with faith have fervour and fervour is the fire of prayer. This mysterious fire has the power of consuming all our faults and imperfections, and of giving to our actions, vitality, beauty and merit. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. - F.B. Meyer

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer. — F.B. Meyer

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. — Andrew Murray

You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse. — David Yonggi Cho

Prayer quote Under certaion circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Under certaion circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy — Joseph Murphy

Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps things along. It does not answer prayers, although it may make you think of a way to solve a problem. It has the power to influence you, but not decide for you. — Diogenes

Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God’s forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul. — Franklin Graham

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life. — Dallas Willard

Sunday Prayer Quotes

Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about. — N. T. Wright

The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is! — Leonard Ravenhill

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need. — David Jeremiah

Prayer quote If the only prayer you ever say is "Thank you", that will be enough.
If the only prayer you ever say is "Thank you", that will be enough.

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord. — Pope Francis

The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds

I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays. — J. C. Ryle

Prayer quote Never underestimate the amazing power of prayer.
Never underestimate the amazing power of prayer.

He prayed on Fridays with the Muslims, on Saturdays with the Jews and on Sundays with the Christians. 'Since each religion claims that it is the only true one and that the others are invalid', the king explained, 'I have decided to hedge my bets'. — Ahmad ibn Rustah

Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays. — Sr?a Trifkovic

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son. — Steve Harvey

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water. — Jonathan Swift

Christian Prayer Quotes

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. — Saint John Chrysostom

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. — Hudson Taylor

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

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. — Charles Grandison Finney

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. — John Wesley

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

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

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

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. — Queen Elizabeth II

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. — Chuck Smith

Prayer Life Quotes

Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself. — Kathryn Kuhlman

Prayer is a walk with God....We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it, you'll never have that intimacy of ministering to the Lord and worshiping Him with a group that you'll have in your own individual life. — Kenneth E. Hagin

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there. — Helen Steiner Rice

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Never lose hope. Stay close to Allah and when you mess up, go back to Him. Never, ever stop going back to Him. Repent often. Cry to Allah. And hold on tight-with your life-to His remembrance and to prayer. If you do this, you may get wet, but insha Allah never drown in this ocean of dunya. — Yasmin Mogahed

Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life. — Saint John Chrysostom

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah

There is no power on earth that can undo Pakistan. — Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The best remedy for a sick church is to put it on a missionary diet. — David Livingstone

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

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi

Answered Prayer Quotes

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them. — Shams Tabrizi

As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan. — John Bunyan

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you. — Nouman Ali Khan

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. — Anselm of Canterbury

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer. - David Wilkerson

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer. — David Wilkerson

Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan. — John Bunyan

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. - John G. Lake

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. — John G. Lake

Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality. — Charles Grandison Finney

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls. — John G. Lake

Answers To Prayer Quotes

You don't know how to pray? Put yourself in the presence of God, and as soon as you have said, 'Lord, I don't know how to pray!' you can be sure you have already begun. — Josemaria Escriva

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. — Leonard Ravenhill

When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy. — Corrie Ten Boom

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it. — Brother Lawrence

The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer; and it is in this way, we have the greatest reason to suppose, that the glorious out-pouring of the Spirit, which we expect at last, will be bestowed. — William Carey

I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it. — Jack Dempsey

Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him. — Ellen G. White

Answering a student's question, 'Will the heathen who have not heard the Gospel be saved?' thus, 'It is more a question with me whether we, who have the Gospel and fail to give it to those who have not, can be saved. — Charles Spurgeon

The most glorious works of grace that have ever took place, have been in answer to prayer. — William Carey

Prayer Time Quotes

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak. — Al-Ghazali

Sit and be still until in the time of no rain you hear beneath the dry wind's commotion in the trees the sound of flowing water among the rocks, a stream unheard before, and you are where breathing is prayer. — Wendell Berry

I believe the prayers of 30 years ago are not lost. We may not see the results of our labour or sacrifice immediately, but in due time they will produce much fruit. — T. B. Joshua

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them. — Vincent de Paul

After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola

You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God. — Josemaria Escriva

Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in our daily lives. It must take priority over the many forms of cheap entertainment offered by our secular culture. It is a lifetime commitment. — Derek Prince

How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? …How many times have I heard evangelists say, “It’ll only take five minutes.”? No my dear friend, it will take your life–all of it! — Paul Washer

This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him, to spend time in prayer, and to learn long-suffering, gentleness, meekness - in short, to learn the depths of the love that Christ Himself has poured out on all of us. — Elisabeth Elliot

It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith. — Louie Giglio

Powerful Prayer Quotes

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes. — Martin Luther

Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom. — Mary Slessor

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need. — Wesley L Duewel

We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings. — Andrew Wommack

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help. — Thomas Keating

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous! — Jim Elliot

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own. — John Owen

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God. — Jane Frances de Chantal

Intercession is the truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer: no continent, no nation, no city, no organization, no office. No power on earth can keep intercession out. — Richard Halverson

Revival Prayer Quotes

The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil. — Leonard Ravenhill

God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible. — William Booth

There can be no revival when Mr. Amen and Mr. Wet-Eyes are not found in the audience. — Charles Grandison Finney

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. — Charles Grandison Finney

Revival is when God gets so sick and tired of being misrepresented that He shows Himself. — Leonard Ravenhill

All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet. — Samuel Logan Brengle

All God's giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reackoned on God being with them. — Hudson Taylor

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself — Sadhu Sundar Singh

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life. — Sadhu Sundar Singh

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God. — Leonard Ravenhill

Worship Quotes

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator. — Mahatma Gandhi

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds — Paul the Apostle

Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work Pleasure without conscience Science without humanity Knowledge without character Politics without principle Commerce without morality Worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi

Do not worship me, I am not God. I'm only a man. I worship Jesus Christ. — Haile Selassie

There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He who propagates god is a scoundrel. He who worships god is a barbarian. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off — Ibn Taymiyyah

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy. — Fulton J. Sheen

Stress and worry is a residual of relying on yourself and being your own god, in control of everything. Worship allows us to rely on God's power to steer us through life. — T. D. Jakes

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. — Oscar Wilde

For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

Family Prayer Quotes

The Rosary is the most beautiful and the most rich in graces of all prayers; it is the prayer that touches most the Heart of the Mother of God...and if you wish peace to reign in your homes, recite the family Rosary. — Pope Pius X

I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family. — Celine Dion

Two of the central ingredients to our family are food and faith, so sitting down together and thanking God for the food He's provided means everything to us. Prayer is a natural part of our lives - not only around the dinner table but all day long. — Phil Robertson

The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening. — Linda S. Reeves

In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. — Sayings

The Family that prays together, stays together. — Pope John Paul II

Pray for the love which allows you to see the good in your companion. Pray for the love that makes weaknesses and mistakes seem small. Pray for the love to make your companion's joy your own. Pray for the love to want to lessen the load and soften the sorrows of your companion — Henry B. Eyring

When we pray, we make tremendous power available, dynamic in its working, causing changes in our favour. Certain prayer sessions are specially designed by the Lord to help straighten out things in the spirit-realm regarding our immediate or later future as individuals, families or ministries. — Chris Oyakhilome

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven. — Thomas Brooks

Prayer Meeting Quotes

There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good. — J. Vernon McGee

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator. — Richard Rohr

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer. — Jim Cymbala

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God. — R. A. Torrey

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? — Jim Cymbala

The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting. — Vance Havner

Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities. — Steven Furtick

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians. — Charles Spurgeon

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer. From Pentecost to the Haystack meeting in New England and from the days when Robert Morrison landed in China to the martyrdom of John and Betty Stam, prayer has been the source of power and the secret of spiritual triumph. — Samuel Marinus Zwemer

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. — Arthur Tappan Pierson

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More Prayer Quotes

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child. - Andrew Murray quote

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child. — Andrew Murray

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. - Doris Lessing quote

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. — Doris Lessing

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. - Tennessee Williams quote

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. — Tennessee Williams

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. - Jonathan Edwards quote

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. — Jonathan Edwards

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer. - Leonard Ravenhill quote

The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer. — Leonard Ravenhill

Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra. - Swami Nithyananda quote

Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra. — Swami Nithyananda

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. - Charles Spurgeon quote

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. — Charles Spurgeon

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal! - Jonathan Goforth quote

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal! — Jonathan Goforth

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. - Garth Brooks quote

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. — Garth Brooks

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working. - Francis of Assisi quote

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working. — Francis of Assisi

I used to believe that prayer changes things, but now I know that prayer changes us, and we change things. — Mother Teresa

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. — Soren Kierkegaard

In Conclusion

Quotes about prayer often highlight the significance of humility and gratitude in the act of prayer. They emphasize the idea of seeking guidance from a higher power and acknowledging the blessings one has received. These quotes often encourage individuals to approach prayer with a sincere heart and to have trust in the process. They remind us that prayer is not just about asking for things but also about expressing gratitude, seeking forgiveness, and finding inner peace. Through these quotes, people can find comfort and motivation to develop a consistent and meaningful prayer practice in their lives.

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