Prayer Quotes



      "Prayer requires more of the heart than the tongue."
- Adam Clarke

     “Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.”
- Soren Kierkegaard

       "Prayer does not change the purpose of God.  But prayer does change the action of God.
- Chuck Smith

       "God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it."
- John Wesley

      “I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle.  There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.”
- Henry Ward Beecher

       "Prayer strikes the winning blow; service is simply picking up the pieces."
- S.D. Gordon

      "Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness."
- Richard C. Trench

       “God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.”
- Richard J. Needham

       “Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”
Blink


       "Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man."
- Francis J. Spellman

     "The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer."
- F.B. Meyer

      “Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.”
- Anonymous


       "Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work."
- Oswald Chanbers

      “It is better to be in deep dangers praying, than on high mountains of vanity playing.”
- Archibald Symson

       "The greatest thing anyone can do for God or man is pray."
- S.D. Gordon

       “Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” 
- Bruce Lee

       “Prayer is the verbal release of faith – a specific faith for a specific purpose, all based on a specific promise from God.”
- Me

       “Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”
- Satchel Paige

       “Prayer is not conquering God’s reluctance, but taking hold of God’s willingness.”
- Phillips Brooks

      “The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.”
- William McGill


       “Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.”
- Samuel M. Shoemaker

      “Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.”
- Anonymous

      “I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”
- Frederick Douglass

      “Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.”
- William Inge

       “We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”
- Oswald Chambers

       “Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer”
- Terri Guillemets

      “I believe in prayer.  It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.”
- Josephine Baker

       “Prayer must never be answered:  if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.”
- Oscar Wilde

     “When prayers go up, blessings come down.” 
- Anonymous

      “Most people do not pray; they only beg.”
- George Bernard Shaw

       “Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
Billy Graham


      “Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. Clement Stone



       “I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.”
- Marianne Williamson

       "There is a mighty lot of difference
between saying prayers and praying."
- John G. Lake

      “Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
- Henri Nouwen

       "Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
- Benjamin Franklin

     “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” 
- Martin Luther

      “prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
- John Bunyan

      “Until you know that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for.”
- John Piper

       "Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God."
- Arthur Pink