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
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
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end. — Charles Grandison Finney
Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness. — William Carey
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. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer infuses the air of a time yet to be into the suffocating atmosphere of the present. — Walter Wink
True prayer is an awareness of our helpless need and an acknowledgment of divine adequacy. — Ray Stedman
Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears. — R. A. Torrey
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life. — Octavius Winslow
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
Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus. — Priscilla Shirer
Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need. — Wesley L Duewel
Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced. — David Bryant
Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church. — Charles Spurgeon
Short Prevailing Prayer Quotes
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. — George Meredith
Prayer begets Revival, which begets more prayer. — Jim Cymbala
The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. — John Bunyan
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God. — Martin Luther
Pray on, dear one- the power lies that way — Mary Slessor
Prayer is the life of the soul. — Madame de Stael
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given. — Benjamin Harrison
Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella. — Barbara Johnson
If the only prayer you ever say is "thank you", that will be enough.
Power Of Prayer Quotes
Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart. — Maximilian Kolbe
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
Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm.
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
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
Prayer is when you talk to god, meditation is when god talks to you.
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
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
Christian 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
The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer. — Barack Obama
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
Prayer is the key to heaven but faith unlocks the door.
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink
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
God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is no.
We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone. — Frances Xavier Cabrini
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
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 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
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
If the only prayer you said was "Thank you", that would be enough.
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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
What you cannot achieve with your efforts, you can achieve with prayer.
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
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
Intercessory Prayer Quotes
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
None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. — Martin Luther
The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth. — John Mott
Prayer is the key of the morning and bolt of the evening.
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day. — Edward McKendree Bounds
The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer. — John Mott
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Under certaion circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there. — John Henry Jowett
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are in the Lord Jesus; both our persons and our prayers are acceptable in the beloved [Eph 1.6]. — Thomas Brooks
Prayer can do anything that God can do. — R. A. Torrey
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prevail Quotes
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. — Colin Powell
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. — Frederick Douglass
[The] type of education now prevailing all over the world is directed against human freedom. State-controlled education ... deprives people of their free choice, creativity and brilliance. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
I am not going to die, I'm going home like a shooting star. — Sojourner Truth
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth
It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. — Samuel Adams
If the only prayer you ever say is "Thank you", that will be enough.
No other success can compensate for failure in the home. The poorest shack in which love prevails over a united family is of greater value to God and future humanity that any other riches. In such a home God can work miracles and will work miracles. — Sayings
A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect — Vann R. Newkirk II
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation. — Jeff Cooper
Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail. — Jan Hus
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
Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God. — Samuel Chadwick
Never underestimate the amazing power of prayer.
Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won. — Wesley L Duewel
It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments — Charles Spurgeon
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. — Oswald Chambers
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee. — Edward De Bono
The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the difficulty of the situation, you require no external confirmation but believe God in spite of appearance. Your eyes are on God, not on the situation. — Wesley L Duewel
Prevailing prayer requires a tender, compassionate heart, a deep solicitude for the glory of God and the good of His people. Nehemiah wept and mourned. — Arthur Wallis
And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: "God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beloved, there are heights in experimental knowledge of the things of God that the eagles discerning eye and philosophical thought have never seen...God alone can take us there, but the chariot in which He takes us up and the fiery steeds that pull the chariot, are prevailing prayers. — Charles Spurgeon
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom — Charles Spurgeon
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life. — Oswald Chambers
The purpose of revival is to fire the church with divine energy for her divine assignment. Revival will tear us away from our temporal pursuits to give ourselves for what really matters.Revival will not occur without prayer. Prevailing prayer is always antecedent to revival. — David Shibley
The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul. — Samuel Chadwick
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably. — John Bunyan
intensity is a law of prayer. God is found by those who seek Him with all their heart. Wrestling prayer prevails. The fervent effectual prayer of the righteous is of great force. — Samuel Chadwick
Temptation gains power where we see it prevail in others we know and we express neither shock or hatred of them and their ways nor pity and prayer for their deliverance. — John Owen
God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ...
The wrong shall fail,
The right prevail,
With peace on earth, good will to men. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
You ask me, How much time? I do not know. I know it means time enough to forget time. — John Mott
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. — Isak Dinesen
Prayer for revival will prevail when it is accompanied by radical amendment of life; not before. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself. — Pio of Pietrelcina
Prayer is the key to unlocking God's prevailing power in your life. — David Jeremiah
Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God. — Charles Spurgeon
Great grief prays with great earnestness. Prayer is not a collection of balanced phrases; it is the pouring out of the soul. What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul. In them men wrestle with principalities and powers...
”The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul. — Samuel Chadwick
There can be no prevailing in prayer without travailing in prayer. — Oswald J. Smith
Let's forget the novelties. If we prevail in prayer, God will do only what he can do. How he does things, when he does them, and in what manner are up to him. The name of Jesus, the power of his blood, and the prayer of faith have never lost their power over the centuries. — Jim Cymbala
The reason why we fail to prevail with unconverted men is due to our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer. — John Mott
Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin. — William Gurnall
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