Prayer Quotes

You can pray until you faint, but unless you get up and try to do something, God is not going to put it in your lap.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

- Shams Tabrizi

Today, Jesus stands ready to hear your cry and to answer prayer for you. He is interested in every detail of your life. He knows you better than you know yourself.

- Kathryn Kuhlman

As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.

- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

- Nouman Ali Khan

Central Truth: Prayer is successful only when it is based on the promises in God’s Word!

- Kenneth E. Hagin

Prayer is the place of refuge for every worry, a foundation for cheerfulness, a source of constant happiness, a protection against sadness.

- Saint John Chrysostom

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

- John Calvin

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

- Isaac Newton

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

- Barack Obama

You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!

- T. D. Jakes

Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.

- John G. Lake

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

- Martin Luther

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

- Martin Luther

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

- Saint Augustine

A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.

- Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart.

- Maximilian Kolbe

You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works.

- Pope Francis

People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.

- Al-Ghazali

We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.

- Vincent de Paul

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

- Anthony of Padua

One good deed is worth a thousand prayers.

- Zoroaster

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

- Paul Washer

There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.

- John G. Lake

Complaints are prayers to the devil.

- Bob Marley

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy. O Divine Master, Grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console, To be understood as to understand, To be loved, as to love.

- Francis of Assisi

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

- Fulton J. Sheen

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

- Pope John Paul II

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

- Dwight L. Moody

Never do I argue with a man with a desire to hear him say what is wrong, or to expose him and win victory over him. Whenever I face an opponent in debate I silently pray - O Lord, help him so that truth may flow from his heart and on his tongue, and so that if truth is on my side, he may follow me; and if truth be on his side, I may follow him.

- Al-Shafi‘i

Let us all resign ourselves into His hands, and pray that in all things He may guide us to do His Holy Will ... When thoughts of this or that come I turn to Him and say: "Only what you will, my God. Use me as You will".

- Mary MacKillop

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

- Smith Wigglesworth

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Arthur W. Pink

You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.

- John Bunyan

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

- Martin Luther

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

- Dwight L. Moody

The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.

- Mother Teresa

Let every step you take upon the earth be as a prayer.

- Black Elk

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God

- John G. Lake

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

- Julius Evola

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

- John Bunyan

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

- George Balanchine

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer.

- David Wilkerson

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

- John Bunyan

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

- Anthony of Padua

A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.

- Soren Kierkegaard

In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one's hand, walk an aisle, or pray a 'sinner's prayer.' As a result, the majority of Americans believe that they've been 'born again' even though their thoughts, words, and deeds are a continual contradiction to the nature and will of God.

- Paul Washer

Let us pray for ourselves, that we may not lose the word “concern” out of our Christian vocabulary. Let us pray for our nation. Let us pray for those who have never known Jesus Christ and redeeming love, for moral forces everywhere, for our national leaders. Let prayer be our passion. Let prayer be our practice.

- Robert E. Lee