50+ Favorite Prayer Quotes
I’ve been collecting quotes since I was a teen, and I’ve been praying for even longer. I’m a firm believer in the power of prayer — and in an all-powerful God who listens. I hope the following quotes will be as big an encouragement to you as they are to me!
50+ Quotes on Prayer
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.”
– Philippians 4:6
“A life without prayer is a boast against God.”
– Author unknown
“Thou art coming to a King,
Large petitions with thee bring;
For His grace and power are such,
None can ever ask too much!”
– John Newton
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus. ”
– 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
“Pray hardest when it is hardest to pray.”
– Author Unknown
“Trouble and perplexity
drive me to prayer,
and prayer drives away
perplexity and trouble.”
– Philip Melanchthon
“As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.”
– Martin Luther
“Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“O Man, I beseech you, do not treat God’s promises as if they were curiosities for a museum; but believe them and use them….”
– Charles H. Spurgeon
“Sometimes, perhaps, you hear another pray with much freedom and fluency, while you can hardly get out a few broken words. Hence you are ready to accuse yourself and admire him, as if the gliding of the key made it open the door better.”
– William Gurnall
“True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.”
– Billy Graham
The more I pray, the more I feel my need of the Word. The more I read God’s Word, the more I have to pray, and the more power I have in prayer.
– Andrew Murray
“Everything is needful that He sends.
– John Newton
Nothing is needful that He withholds.”
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, persistent in prayer.”
– Romans 12:12
“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
– Author Unknown
Praying Boldly for Myself
Dear Heavenly Father, I pray that You would help me to:
M – Mind what matters most
Y – Yield my will to Yours.
S – Serve others with gladness.
E – Encourage the downtrodden.
L – Love others sacrificially.
F – Forgive as You forgive me
– Jennifer Flanders
“Prayer is not the verbalization of your mouth, it is the cry of your heart.”
– Unknown Author
“Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” – James 5:16, KJV
“Prayer does not change God,
– Søren Kierkegaard
but it changes him who prays.”
“Nine-tenths of the difficulties in finding the Lord’s will are overcome when our hearts are ready to do His will, whatever it may be.”
– Unknown Author
“Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.”
The Secret
I met God in the morning
When the day was at its best,
And His Presence came like sunrise,
Like a glory within my breast.
All day long the Presence lingered,
All day long He stayed with me,
And we sailed in perfect calmness
O’er a very troubled sea.
Other ships were blown and battered,
Other ships were sore distressed,
But the winds that seemed to drive them
Brought to us a peace and rest.
Then I thought of other mornings
With a keen remorse of mind,
When I, too, had left the moorings
With His Presence left behind.
So I think I know the secret,
Learned from many a troubled day:
You must seek God in the morning
If you want Him through the day.– Author Unknown
Surely it ought not be true that we, who have power with God to obtain by prayer and faith all needful grace, wisdom, and skill, should be bad servants, bad tradesmen, bad masters.
– George Müller
The divine pattern of prayer is to pray to the Father, in the name of the Son, with the help of the Holy Spirit.
– Unknown Author
“God is always within call, it is true; His ear is ever attentive to the cry of His child, but we can never get to know Him if we use prayer as we use the telephone – for a few words of hurried conversation. Intimacy requires development.”
– E. M. Bounds
It is impossible for a believer, no matter what his experience, to keep right with God if he will not take the trouble to spend time with God…. Spend plenty of time with God; let other things go, but don’t neglect Him.
– Oswald Chambers
“Let gratitude be the pillow
upon which you kneel
to say your nightly prayer.”
―Maya Angelou
“Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy.” – John Piper
I cannot tell why there should come to me
A thought of someone miles and years away,
In swift instance on the memory,
Unless there is a need that I should pray.
Perhaps just then my friend has fiercer fight,
A more appalling weakness, a decay
Of courage, darkness, some lost sense of right;
And so, in case he needs my prayers, I pray.
– Mrs. Jonathan Goforth
“When prayer becomes your habit, miracles become your lifestyle. Never give up on prayer no matter what comes your way.”
– Author Unknown
God gives His best to those who let Him choose.
– Author Unknown
“Four hours of work
after an hour of prayer
will accomplish more than
five hours without prayer.”
– George Müller
“We should pray when we are in a praying mood,
– Charles Spurgeon
for it would be sinful to neglect so fair an opportunity.
We should pray when we are not in a proper mood,
for it would be dangerous to remain in so unhealthy a condition.”
Be definite with God, and He will be definite with you.
– Unknown
“The power of prayer
in the life of an obedient Christian
can only be undermined
by neglect.”
– David Bently-Taylor
“The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.”
– F.B. Meyer
“We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” Oswald Chambers
“But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.”
“Now in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.”
– Romans 8:26, NASB
“In prayer it is better to have
a heart without words
than words without a heart.”
– John Bunyan
Your problems shrink when you give them to the Lord.
– Rick Warren
“Worry is a signal to me that I’m depending too much on myself and not enough on God.”
– Author Unknown
Prayer is the uplifting of the heart to God.
– Author Unknown
“Sometimes the worst thing
God can do for us
is give us exactly what
we think we want.”
– Thomas C. Urrey
“The more often we invite God into our ordinary moments, the more our eyes and hearts will notice Him working.”
“Devote yourselves to prayer,
– Colossians 4:2
being watchful and thankful,”
“If you leave the choice to God,
God will give you His choice.”
– Author Unknown
“Pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.” – Ephesians 6:18
“If you desire anything for God’s glory, you should pray until you get it.”
– George Müller
“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”
– Martin Luther
We don’t have problems, we have opportunities for God to work.
– David Drake
“The secret of praying is praying in secret.”
– Author Unknown
“Don’t worry about having the right words; worry more about having the right heart. It’s not eloquence He seeks, just honesty.”
– Max Lucado
“If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.” – Billy Sunday
The family altar will alter the family.
– Author Unknown
“Before prayer changes others,
it first changes us.”
— Billy Graham
“When the outlook is bad, try looking up.”
– Author Unknown
God answers prayer in four ways:
>> No, not now.
>> No, I love you too much.
>> Yes, I thought you’d never ask.
>> Yes, and much more.
– Author Unknown
“Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.”
― J.C. Ryle
Don’t put a question mark where God has put a period.
– Author Unknown
“Trying times are times to try more faith.”
– Author Unknown
“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
“God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. They outlive the lives of those who uttered them.”
– Edward McKendree Bounds
“If you prayed as much as you worried, you’d have much less to worry about.”
– Author Unknown
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