Inspirational Quotes on Prayer

“History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.”

“He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.”

“Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.”

“Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.”

“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

“The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer. ”

“O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.”

“What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!”

“It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.”

“We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.”

“Prayer is the preface to the book of Christian living; the text of the new life sermon; the girding on of the armor for battle; the pilgrim's preparation for his journey. It must be supplemented by action or it amounts to nothing.”

“Are you living for the things you are praying for?”

“Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.”

“Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.”

“Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.”

“If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.”

“Yank some of the groans out of your prayers, and shove in some shouts.”

“All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.”

“One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings.”

“I drove away from my mind everything capable of spoiling the sense of the presence of God.... I just make it my business to persevere in His holy presence... My soul has had an habitual, silent, secret conversation with God.”