Inspirational Quotes on Prayer

“Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.”

“Prayer does not equip us for greater works - prayer is the greater work.”

“Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.”

“Some prayers are followed by silence (from God) because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than one can understand. It will be a wonderful moment for some of us when we stand before God and find that the prayers we clamored for in early days and imagined were never answered, have been answered in the most amazing way, and that God's silence has been the sign of the answer.”

“The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.”

“The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.”

“There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.”

“Storms can bring fear, cloud judgment, and create confusion. Yet God promises that as you seek Him through prayer, He will give you wisdom to know how to proceed. The only way you will survive the storm will be on your knees.”

“If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.”

“Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.”

“Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.”

“Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.”

“A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.”

“Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!”

“Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.”

“Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire, is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.”

“I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.”

“If man is man, and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing; it is an infinitely foolish thing.”

“Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.”

“Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.”