Prayer Quotes

Colossians 1:9-11 (NLT)

 ⁹ So we have not stopped praying for you since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you complete knowledge of his will and to give you spiritual wisdom and understanding. ¹⁰Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.

 ¹¹ We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,^[a]


Prayer is a privilege purchased by the blood of Jesus Christ. Christ died for this end, it cost him the shedding of his blood, so that we, through him, might have entrance to the throne of grace. And will you let such a privilege as this lie still? If you do, so far as is in you, you cause his blood to be shed in vain. For if you neglect the privileges gotten by that blood, you neglect the blood that procured them. [The Puritans on Prayer p.17]


And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest.--Andrew A. Bonar.


"Our prayer lives can only be as effective as the quality of our relationship with God."--Charles T. Crabtree


"Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort."--Thomas B. Brooks


“For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.”--C. S. Lewis


“A man is powerful on his knees.” --Corrie Ten Boon


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


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


It is far better to pray in a private "room," be unseen by man, and have the approval of God


"Fervent, sincere prayer thwarts Satan's activity like nothing else. --Neil Anderson


"Prayer is the Christian's first line of defense against demonic influence."-- Neil Anderson


"The main thing that God asks for is our attention."-- Jim Cymbala


"Prayer is talking with God and telling Him you love Him."-- C. Neil Strait


"Conversing with God about all the things that are important in life, both large and small, and being assured that He is listening."-- C. Neil Strait


"Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won."-- Duewe


"Prayer has the power to change mountains into highways." - Wesley L. Duewel


"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks


"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men!" -- Phillips Brooks


"When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep."--Author Unknown


"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."__Søren Kierkegaard


"How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray." -- George Campbell Morgan


Reveal Yourself unto me in new ways, Lord; be born in my heart in a new way. 


"If we make the basis of prayer our effort and agony and nights of prayer, we mistake the basis of prayer."-- Oswald Chambers


Father help me to follow the example Jesus gave to serve others with excellence. 


"God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground."-- Oswald Chambers


"...Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered."-- Oswald Chambers

"Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail." - Amzi Clarence Dixon

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

"...get a place for prayer where no one imagines that that is what you are doing. Shut the door and talk to God."-- Oswald Chambers

"Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian."-- Andrew Murray

"Prayer succeeds when all else fails."-- E.M. Bounds

"The goal of prayer is the ear of God."-- E. M. Bounds

"Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer."-- E. M. Bounds

"Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer." -- E.M. Bounds

"The conditions of praying are the conditions of righteousness, holiness, and salvation." -- E. M. Bounds

"Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need." -- Wesley L. Duewel

"Prayer is the supreme way to be workers together with God." -- Wesley L. Duewel

Prayer "is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings." -- Chrysostom


“Prayer opens the heart of God, and is a means by which the empty soul is filled.” – John Bunyan, Ibid.


The biggest help of go down on your knees for prayer is that it tells us once again who’s who in our conversation with God


"Satan laughs at our toiling, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray." -- The Kneeling Christian


The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. -- E. M. Bounds


“If we pray little, t is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.”Wayne A. Grudem


“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”Martin Luther King, Jr


"So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His loving kindness, His good-natured benevolence,God does it!" --Tozer


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