Famous Prayer Quotes
· Reinhold Niebuhr (American Theologian) said, “God grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, courage to change things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” · Martin Luther said, “To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” · Anonymous. “If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would soon have nothing to grumble about.” · Abraham Lincoln said, “I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.” · Billy Graham said, “Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn’t pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.” · Francis de Sales (Roman Catholic Devotional Writer) said, “Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.” · Corrie Ten Boom (Christian Writer) said, “Don’t pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.” · “We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.” – Vencent de Paul, Roman Catholic priest and spiritual writer. · “Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” – Corrie Ten Boom, devotional writer. · “Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.” – Oswald Chambers, English devotional writer. · “Many a person is praying for rain with his tub the wrong side up.” – Sam Jones, American revivalist. · Robert Murray McCheyne (Scottish Evangelical Pastor) said, “God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.” · “God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him (Francois Fenelon, Franch mystical theologian).” · “Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom” – Charles Spurgeon, Baptist revivalist preacher. · “In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender” – Abraham Joshua Heschel, American Jewish Theologian. · “Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.” – Walter Hilton, English mystic. · “He who has learned to pray has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.” – William Law, Anglican author. · “There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.” – Brother Lawrence, author of Practicing the Presence of God. · John Owen (Puritan Theologian) said, “He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays.” · Norman Vincent Peale, “Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.” · Oswald Chambers said, “Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things. “Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him.” Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.” · Martin Luther said, “What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles…The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.” · Elton Trueblood (Quaker Philosopher) said, “At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him.” · D. L. Moody (19th Century Evangelist) said, “Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.” · D. L. Moody (19th Century Evangelist) said, “After we have made our requests known to Him, our language should be, “Thy will be done.” I would a thousand times rather that Gods’ will should be done than my own.” · Samuel Chadwick (Puritan preacher) said, “Hurry is the death of Prayer.” · Merlin R. Carothers (author of “Prison to Praise”) said, “The very act of praise releases the power of God into a set of circumstances and enables God to change them if this is His design… I have come to believe that the prayer of praise is the highest form of communication with God, and one that always releases a great deal of power into our lives.” ● E.M. Bounds said, “if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.” · Pope John Paul 2 said, “We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.” ● John Wesley said, “God does nothing except in answer to Prayer.” ● Carl Barth said, “To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.” ● John Maxwell said, “Every time I have had a breakthrough in my life, it has been because of Prayer” ● The fatalist or non-believer says, “what will be, will be.” ● Larry Lea says, “It is important that we know and hear God’s voice, for the words of God reveal the will of God.” ● C.S. Lewis said, “Lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us.” ● Walter Wink said, “History belongs to the intercessors” ● Charles Finney said, “Prayer meetings are the most difficult meetings to sustain because they are the most spiritual meetings of the church.” ● Charles Finney said, “Unless the leader is especially prepared, the prayer meetings will dwindle.” ● Henry Ward Beecher said, “Whoever can take a church and develop in it a good prayer meeting, carry it on through years and still have it fruitful, various, spiritual -- he is a General.”
● Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything
depended on you. John Bunyan 1628-1688, British Author
● Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die
tomorrow. ● Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. George Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
● The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the
strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of
public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people
of America.
● All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my
mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all
my life.
● All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will
certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
● More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones. ● Dale Carnegie was asked, “what is the secret of your life?” Dale Carnegie replied, “Every day I pray. I yield myself to God, the tensions and anxieties go out of me and peace and power come in. é Posted to Yahoo group 4/17/06 Woodrow Wilson said, "I pray God I may be given the wisdom and the prudence to do my duty in the true spirit of this great people. I am their servant and can succeed only as they sustain and guide me by their confidence and their counsel. The thing I shall count upon, the thing without which neither counsel nor action will avail, is the unity of America—an America united in feeling, in purpose and in its vision of duty, of opportunity and of service." - We thank our Yahoo group member “Paul Flatt” for submitting -
é Posted to Yahoo group 4/9/06
● “When you are in an upsetting
situation, pray for everyone involved. Pray hard and be open to the power of
God." Prayer is a gift that blesses you and those for whom you pray and it
is something that can be done at any time, in any place, whenever you have a
moment to give.
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