Prayers Quotes

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.

Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Lord, my life is but a mist (James 4:14), yet through Your power, the things I give myself to can have an eternal impact. I am Your vessel

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

God answers all prayers, but sometimes his answer is 'no'.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.

If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven’s purpose on earth.

Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

After saying our prayers, we ought to do something to make them come true.

Our prayers should arise out of immersion in the Scripture. [We] speak only to the degree we are spoken to.

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers.

Our prayers are prophets.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation.

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.