- Prayer Quotes -

1. “That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.” - Jim Elliot

2. “If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.” - Robert Murray McCheyene

3. “Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.” - R. A. Torrey

4. “If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God on which to rest my faith.” - R.A. Torrey

5. “Prayer can never be in excess.” - C. H. Spurgeon

6. “On the other end of that prayer line is a loving Heavenly Father who has promised to hear and answer our petitions. In this day of disintegrating families on every side, we dare not try to make it on our own.” - James Dobson

7. “I seriously doubt if there would be many divorces among Christians if they took time to kneel in prayer once a day and prayed for each other.” - Ruth Bell Graham

8. “The motive is this, ‘Oh! that God could be glorified, that Jesus might see the reward of his sufferings! Oh! that sinners might be saved, so that God might have new tongues to praise him, new hearts to love him! Oh! that sin were put an end to, that the holiness, righteousness, mercy, and power of God might be magnified!’ This is the way to pray; when thy prayers seek God's glory, it is God's glory to answer thy prayers.” - C. H. Spurgeon

9. “To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives.” - Richard Foster

10. “Prayer that leads a couple increasingly to the heart of God is prayer worth making time for, even in the most demanding and pressed of schedules.” - Carey Moore and Pamela Rosewell Moore

11. "...why is it that so few Christians ask to have prayer with me?" - A young Chinese believer

12. “Where prayer is, revival cannot be far behind.” - Dr. Richard Lovelace

13. “Unless we pray aright we cannot live aright or serve aright.” - An Unknown Christian

14. “Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.” - Anonymous

15. “If we would do much for God, we must ask much of God; we must be men of prayer.” - Payson

16. “If no one on earth prayed for the salvation of sinners more fervently or more frequently than I do, how many of them would be converted to God through prayer?” - An Unknown Christian

17.“A man’s influence in the world can be gauged not by his eloquence, or his zeal, or his orthodoxy, or his energy, but by his prayers.” - An Unknown Christian

18. “Every convert is the result of the Holy Spirits pleading in answer to the prayers of some believer.” - An Unknown Christian

19. “You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you can never do more than pray until you have prayed.” - A. J. Gordon

20. “We must not conceive of prayer as overcoming God’s reluctance, but as laying hold of His highest willingness.” - Archbishop Trench

21. “Remember, you have not prayed successfully or acceptably unless you have in prayer endeavored to draw near to God.” - C. H. Spurgeon

22. “Real prayer at it’s highest and best reveals a soul athirist for God— just God alone.” - An Unknown Christian

23. “I should as soon expect life in a dead man as spiritual life in a prayerless soul!” - An Unknown Christian

24. “I question if any believer can have the burden of souls upon him— a passion for souls— and not agonize in prayer.” - An Unknown Christian

25. “O God, give me Scotland or I die.” - John Knox

26. “Prayer gives God the opportunity of speaking to us and revealing His will to us.” - An Unknown Christian

27. “The fact remains that, that when we pray for others, somehow or other it opens the way for God to influence those we have prayed for.” - An Unknown Christian

28. “My belief is that men so seldom speak to others about their spiritual condition because they pray so little for them.” - An Unknown Christian

29. “Men of power are without exception men of prayer.” - An Unknown Christian

30. “Prayer is a making known to God our wants and desires, and holding out the hand of faith to take His gifts.” - An Unknown Christian

31. “Our poverty in prayer is the seedbed of all our failures.” - Lenord Ravenhill

32. “Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle!” - Lenord Ravenhill

33. “The more men pray the less worldly they become. The less they pray, the more worldly they become.” - Lenord Ravenhill

34. “It is important that we speak to men about God: but is vastly more important that we speak to God about men.” - C. I. Scofield

35. "We will never have time for prayer---we must make time." - Richard Foster

36. “What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use— men of prayer, men mighty in prayer,” - E.M. Bounds

37. “Preaching which kills is prayerless preaching. Without prayer the preacher creates death, and not life.” - E.M. Bounds

38. “Light praying makes light preaching.” - E.M. Bounds

39. “You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect it.” - Sir Thomas Buxton

40. “Colleges, learning, books theology, preaching cannot make a preacher, but praying does.” - E.M. Bounds

41. “Much time spent with God is the secret of all successful praying.” - E.M. Bounds

42. “A prayerless Christian will never learn God’s truth; a prayerless ministry will never be able to teach God’s truth.” - E.M. Bounds

43. “Hell has enlarged herself and filled her dire caves in the presence of the dead service of a prayerless church.” - E.M. Bounds

44. “If we would be soul winners, we must know how to pray.” - H. A. Ironside

45. “Every praying soul needs some place and time for prayer, free from needless interruption and intrusion.” - A. T. Pierson

46. “...when such communion becomes real, prayer ceases to be mere duty and becomes delight. All sense of obligation is lost in privilege.” - A. T. Pierson

47. “We try our own methods; we rely on numbers, on wealth, on logic and rhetoric, on organization and enterprise, on enthusiasm and intelligence, on social influence and political prestige, on scholarship and secularism; on everything but the Word of God, the Spirit of God and the prevailing hold of suppliant souls on the horns of God’s altar of supplication. - A. T. Pierson

48. “Let prayer be your key of the morning and the bolt at night.” - Philip Henry

49. "The best way to fight against sin is to fight it on our knees." - Philip Henry

50. “Let us pray for the Spirit of prayer. He will take us into the workshop where the power conduits lie. Above the door of this room is written: ‘Nothing shall be impossible for you’.” - O. Hallesby

51. “Worship is the ‘thank you’ that refuses to be silenced.” - Max Lucado

52. “If sinners be dammed, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there UNWARNED and UNPRAYED for.” - C. H. Spurgeon

53. “We do not pray to get things from God, but as we pray God changes us until His will becomes our will.” - Ruth Bell

54. “If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.” - C. H. Spurgeon

55. “Pray until what you pray for has been accomplished or until you have complete assurance in your heart that it will be.” - The Practice of Prayer

56. “Though the Bible be crowded with golden promises from board to board, yet will they be inoperative until we turn them into prayer. - F. B. Meyer

57. “God could have shown up at any time, but over and over in the Bible, He revealed Himself when people began to pray.” - Jim Cymbala

58. “Prayer has power because it brings believing souls into oneness with the operation of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Prayer is therefore a partnership and cooperation with the Trinity. How very essential is our part in that partnership and cooperation!” - Andrew Murray

59. "All our strength lies in prayer!” - C. H. Spurgeon

60. “We are not ready for the battle until we have seen the Lord, for Jesus is the answer to all problems.” - Corrie Ten Boom

61. “Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.” - C. H. Spurgeon

62. “As the Lord has made every leaf different, so also He shows limitless variety and divine ingenuity in answering prayer.” - Cameron V. Thompson

63. “See to it that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer, which will follow them all the days of their life.” - O. Hallesby

64. “When we seek God for answers, we must persevere in prayer, letting it build up day after day until the force of it becomes a mighty tide pushing over all obstacles.” - Jim Cymbala

65. “Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.” - Max Lucado

66. “A small prayer answered is an encouragement to keep the spiritual lights on, to keep praying, to keep loving even when we feel unsure any of it will change the situation.” - Valerie and Steve Bell

67. “Prayer is of transcendent importance...Prayer succeeds when all else fails.” - E. M. Bounds

68. “Around us is a world lost in sin, above us is a God willing and able to save; it is ours to build the bridge that links heaven and earth, and prayer is the mighty instrument that does the work.”
- E.M. Bounds

69. “The trouble with nearly everybody who prays is that he says ‘Amen’ and runs away before God has a chance to reply. Listening to God is far more important than giving Him our ideas.”
- Frank Laubach

70. “Prayer— since it is an act of hope and trust— fosters peace in the midst of crisis.” - Art Hunt

71. “Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; He taught that prayers were always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father’s wisdom.’ - Oswald Chambers

72. “Praying together reminds us that God is in control of everything. We become aware of God’s presence because we know that when we pray together, God is in our midst to guide and direct us in the day-to-day workings of our marriage.” - Bob and Yvonne Turnbull

73. “A prayerful attitude of thankfulness, no matter what the situation, results in our receiving the unsurpassed peace of God.” - John MacArthur

74. “The more helpless you are, the better you are fitted to pray, and the more answers to prayer you will experience.” - O. Hallesby

75. “Prayer is the link that connects us with God. It is the bridge that spans every gulf and carries us safely over every chasm of danger or need.” - A.B. Simpson

76. “We must recognize that prayer alone, prayer together, prayer for ourselves, prayer for each other, continual prayer is an essential portion of our work.” - Edith Schaeffer

77. “There is nothing that makes us love a man as much as praying for him.” - William Law

78. “Prayer is the recognition that if God had not engaged Himself in our problems, we would still be lost in the blackness.” - Max Lucado

79. “The most successful church planters spend 4.25 hours more in prayer per week than the average church planter." - Grady and Kendall

80. "Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing...Prayer humbles us as needy, and exalts God as wealthy." - John Piper

81. "Away in foreign fields, they wondered how their simple word had power - At home, some Christians, two or three, had met to pray an hour. We are always wondering - wondering how, because we do not see someone - perhaps unknown and far away - on bended knee." - Unknown

82. "Prayer is primarily a wartime walkie-talkie for the mission of the church as it advances against the powers of darkness and unbelief. It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den...Until you know that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for: Prayer is for the accomplishment of a wartime mission." - John Piper

83. "...we all have to wait until the astonishing discoveries will one day be made, and find out whose faithful prayer in hospitals, prisons, jungles, wheelchairs, crowded city apartments, cabins in the woods, farms, factories, or concentration camps has been a part of a specific victory in snatching someone from a circle of death, or in breaking chains so that there seems to be an ease for that one in stepping into new life. I feel sure that we'll be surprised beyond measure to discover who or how many will receive the rewards for their part in taking literally and with simple faith and trust the responsibility to intercede, to pray, to make requests day in and day out." - Edith Schaeffer

84. "The church will listen to sermons, will initiate missions, will create organizations, but the last thing she will do is to pray, and because prayer is wanting all else is comparatively valueless. Once the church is brought to her knees, then the set time to favor her will arrive, and Spirit
will be emptied out from on high." - F.B. Meyer

85. "...I wonder what would happen to most churches and Christian work if we awakened tomorrow, and everything concerning the reality and work of the Holy Spirit, and everything concerning prayer were removed from the Bible. I don't mean just ignored, but actually cut out - disappeared. I wonder how much difference it would make?" - Francis Schaeffer