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Profound Quotes About Prayer
1.”Our
prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of
prayer is in the one who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers
do make a difference.” – Max Lucado
2. “To be a
Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without
breathing.” – Martin Luther
3. “True
prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far
deeper than that – it is a spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and
Earth.” – Charles Spurgeon
4. “If you
believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you
will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but
if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.” – Charles Spurgeon
5. “Prayer
makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of
humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really
pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying.” – E.M.
Bounds
6. “Prayer
should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a
privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new
beauty.” – E.M. Bounds
7. “God can
handle your doubt, anger, fear, grief, confusion, and questions. You can bring
everything to him in prayer.” – Rick Warren
8. “Prayers
outlive the lives of those who uttered them; outlive a generation, outlive an
age, outlive a world.” – E.M Bounds
9. “Prayer
delights God’s ear; it melts His heart.” – Thomas Watson
10. “It is
possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone.” – Hudson Taylor
11. “To get
nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.” – Billy
Graham
12. “Prayer
is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice is its most essential part. Listening
to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.” –
Andrew Murray
13. “To
desire revival… and at the same time to neglect (personal) prayer and devotion
is to wish one way and walk another.” – A.W. Tozer
14. “I saw
more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I
ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.” – George
Mueller
15. “Our
praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never
tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never
fails.” – E. M. Bounds
16. “God
does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.” – John Wesley
17. “Prayer
does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.” – Oswald
Chambers
18. “Search
for a person who claims to have found Christ apart from someone else’s prayer,
and your search may go on forever.” – E. Bauman
19. “Have
you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere
therein, and mercy will come down.” – John Wesley
20. “God
will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate
with Him.” – John Smith
21. “A day
without prayer is a day without blessing, and a life without prayer is a life
without power.” – Edwin Harvey
22. “Quit playing,
start praying. Quit feasting, start fasting. Talk less with men, talk more with
God. Listen less to men, listen to the words of God. Skip travel, start
travail.” – Leonard Ravenhill
23. “None
can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those
who have learned it by experience. It is a great matter when in extreme need to
take hold on prayer.” – Martin Luther
24. “You
know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price. Never, never neglect
it.” – Sir Thomas Buxton
25. “Prayer
is the first thing, the second thing, the third thing necessary to a minister.
Pray, then my dear brother; pray, pray, pray.” – Edward Payson
26. “It is
not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue
for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in prayer
until we obtain an answer; and further we have not only to continue in prayer
unto the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us, and will
answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until
the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing.” – George Müller
27. “Think
of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed
people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!”
– Andrew Murray
28. “The
reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God
usually answers us according to our own hearts.” – Richard Alleine
29. “Satan
cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit
of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down.” – William Gurnall
30. “The
devil is aware that one hour of close fellowship, hearty converse with God in
prayer, is able to pull down what he hath been contriving and building many a
year.” – Flavel
31. “Beware
in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief,
but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things ‘above
all that we ask or think.’” – Andrew Murray
32. “If we
would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really
get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a
word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we
are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to
grant the thing that we ask of Him.” – Dr. R. A. Torrey
33. “What is
love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are
the battles of the soul.” – Samuel Chadwick
34. “Mind
how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality…plead
the promise in a truthful, business-like way…Ask for what you want, because the
Lord has promised it.” – Charles Spurgeon
35. “Where
there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of
the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer.” – Andrew Murray
36. “A godly
man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in, prayer is poured out.
Prayer is the soul’s traffic with Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit,
and we go up to Him by prayer.” – Thomas Watson
37. “Every
great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” – D. L. Moody
38. “There
is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the
work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer.” – Jonathan Edwards
39. “As it
is the business of tailors to make clothes, and the business of cobblers to
mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray!” – Martin Luther
40. “Prayer
is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.” –
Martin Luther
41.
“Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The
Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine
in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt
surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.” – C. H. Spurgeon
42. “The one
concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from
prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our
toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.” – Samuel Chadwick
43. “What
the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations
or more and novel methods, but men who the Holy Spirit can use—men of prayer,
men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not come on machinery but on men. He
does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer.” – E. M. Bounds
