Inspirational Quotes on Prayer

“Prayer is the key of perfection and of sovereign happiness; it is the efficacious means of getting rid of all vices and of acquiring all virtues; for the way to become perfect is to live in the presence of God.”

“I have never found any who prayed so well as those who had never been taught how. They who have no master in man, have one in the Holy Spirit.”

“He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart.”

“When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.”

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”

“Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.”

“I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.”

“Pray, and let God worry.”

“Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.”

“The fewer the words, the better the prayer.”

“The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.”

“Tomorrow I plan to work, work, from early until late. In fact I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”

“Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.”

“Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this always obey such an impulse.”

“Give yourself to it,[the call to prayer] yield to it; and you will find not only that you have not been wasting time with respect to the matter with which you are dealing but that actually it has helped you greatly in that respect. You will experience an ease and a facility in understanding what you were reading, in thinking, in ordering matter for a sermon, in writing, in everything which is quite astonishing. Such a call to prayer must never be regarded as a distraction; always respond to it immediately, and thank God if it happens to you frequently.”

“We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.”

“It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.”

“Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.”

“We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.”