Inspirational Quotes on Prayer

“Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.”

“Public prayers are of little worth unless they are founded on or followed up by private praying.”

“The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer.”

“They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.”

“Every mighty move of the Spirit of God has had its source in the prayer chamber.”

“The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.”

“Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.”

“Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.”

“Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible.”

“As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.”

“We must be still before God.”

“The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.”

“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.”

“Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.”

“Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.”

“I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is a spiritual war mode that we must appropriate. It is an aggressive stance that we take against evil. It is governed by love for people, but it is fearless and uncompromising with the powers of darkness that manipulate people to fulfill evil plans.”

“Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.”

“Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.”

“Time spent in prayer is never wasted.”

“I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.”