Inspirational Quotes on Prayer

“Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God. and a scourge for Satan.”

“Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.”

“Sincerity is the same in a corner alone, as it is before the face of the world. It knows not how to wear two vizards, one for an appearance before men, and another for a short snatch in a corner; but it must have God, and be with him in the duty of prayer. It is not lip-labour that it doth regard, for it is the heart that God looks at, and that which sincerity looks at, and that which prayer comes from, if it be that prayer which is accompanied with sincerity.”

“It is not the mouth that is the main thing to be looked at in prayer, but whether the heart is so full of affection and earnestness in prayer with God, that it is impossible to express their sense and desire; for then a man desires indeed, when his desires are so strong, many, and mighty, that all the words, tears, and groans that can come from the heart, cannot utter them.”

“The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.”

“Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled with God.”

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”

“The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.”

“When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without a heart.”

“God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.”

“Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.”

“The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.”

“Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.”

“Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.”

“We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.”

“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.”

“The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.”

“Prayer is an all-efficient panoply, a treasure undiminished, a mine which is never exhausted, a sky unobscured by clouds, a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.”

“(We pray) not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.”

“Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.”