Quotes on Prayer
"Prayer is the breath of the new creature." - Richard Baxter
"When we go to God in prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposeth us all he can." - Richard Sibbs
"1. Pray till you pray; 2. Pray till you are conscious of being heard; 3. Pray till you recieve an answer." - Moody Stuart
"The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public." - A.A. Bonar
"I should count the days, not by what I have of new instances of usefullness, but by the times I have been enabled to pray in faith, and to take hold upon God." - Andrew A. Bonar
"Oh, that I had prayed a hundred-fold more." Andrew A. Bonar
"We have found no means so much blessed to keep religion alive as fasting and prayer." - Edward Payson
"In the prayer meeting of Acts 1 they were seeking the promised outpouring of the Holy Spirit spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, Joel and others which was reiterated by Christ not only as a possibility or a vague expectation but as the Lords absolute provision in order that they may carry the Gospel forth from Jerusalem." - K. Malcomson
"Prayer is the breath of the new creature." - Richard Baxter
"It is not enough for the believer to begin to pray, nor to pray correctly; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray. We must
patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer." - George Muller
“…Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed...And He blessed him there.”
"We greatly need someone who can set the saints to this business of praying; and he one who can set the church to praying will be the greatest of reformers and apostles.” – E.M. Bounds
"He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination." - Proverbs 28:9
"Prayer changes us! So many want to change God - His ways, His plans, His thoughts, His holiness and His order. And they use prayer to this end. This is an abuse of prayer. Prayer changes us, makes us bend, opens our eyes, and gives us a yielding heart. Where true prayer ascends, true saints bend." - K. Malcomson
"You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed." - A.J. Gordon
"The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock in Heaven by which Christ carries on His great work upon the earth." - E.M. Bounds
"0h brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber." Andrew A. Bonar
In the old days, we got down on our knees before God, and we wept, and we prayed for lost souls. Then we preached in the power of the Holy Spirit." - James A. Stewart
"An ounce of believing prayer is worth a ton of edifying talk. John Cowan
"Even though we may not take part audibly in the action, yet if we are there in a right spirit - there really to wait upon God, we marvelously help the tone of a meeting." - CHM
"God will do nothing except in answer to prayer." - John Wesley
True revival changes the moral climate of an area or a nation. Without exception, all true revivals of the past began after years of agonizing, hell-robbing, earth-shaking, heaven-sent intercession. The secret to true revival in our own day is still
the same. But where, oh, where, are the intercessors?" - Leonard Ravenhill
"You must go forward on your knees." - Hudson Taylor
"You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer, be sure, the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this
flame." - William Booth
"Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray." - Robert Murray McCheyne
"O Brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper- and sleep too- than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber." - Andrew Bonar
"Holy living is essential preparation for prayer." - E.M. Bounds
"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
"The greatest hindrance to effective prayer is sin. Satan's greatest goal is to keep us from our knees." - Dick Eastman
"Prayerlessness is sin." - Harold Lindsell
"Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest." - Thomas Hooker (Puritan Preacher)
"The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God." - Herbert Lockyer
"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
"A man who kneels before God will stand before men." - Leonard Ravenhill
"The secret of praying is praying in secret." -- Leonard Ravenhill
"Prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer - pray till you
can pray." - C.H. Spurgeon
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks
"Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won." - Wesley L. Duewel
"Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world." - E. M. Bounds
"God does nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley
"No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life." - Leonard Ravenhill
"When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves." - A.W. Tozer
"He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer
chamber than anything else." - E.M.Bounds
"I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit." - Oswald J. Smith
"A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry
for God." - Leonard Ravenhill
"God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret." - Thomas Brooks.
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?-- Corrie Ten Boom
"He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays." - John Owen
"All it takes to make a preacher is a sermon - but it takes an altar to make a man of God." - B.H. Clendennen
"Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness." - William Carey
"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 Allelne
"I have benefitted greatly by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for myself." - Samuel Rutherford
"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. The devil fears nothing from prayer less-studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion, He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray." - Samuel Chadwick
"We may cry to God, and desire him to write down all our injuries: shall not the child complain to his father? When any burden is upon the spirit, prayer gives vent, it easeth the heart. Hannah's spirit was burdened; 'I am' says she, 'a woman of a sorrowful spirit.' Now having prayed, and wept, she went away, and was no more sad; only here is the difference between a holy complaint and a discontented complaint; in the one we complain to God, in the other we complain of God." - Thomas Watson
"The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray." - A.W. Tozer
"When we go to God in prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposeth us all he can." - Richard Sibbs
"1. Pray till you pray; 2. Pray till you are conscious of being heard; 3. Pray till you recieve an answer." - Moody Stuart
"The Lord filled me with desire, and made me feel that I must be as much with Him alone as with souls in public." - A.A. Bonar
"I should count the days, not by what I have of new instances of usefullness, but by the times I have been enabled to pray in faith, and to take hold upon God." - Andrew A. Bonar
"Oh, that I had prayed a hundred-fold more." Andrew A. Bonar
"We have found no means so much blessed to keep religion alive as fasting and prayer." - Edward Payson
"In the prayer meeting of Acts 1 they were seeking the promised outpouring of the Holy Spirit spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, Joel and others which was reiterated by Christ not only as a possibility or a vague expectation but as the Lords absolute provision in order that they may carry the Gospel forth from Jerusalem." - K. Malcomson
"Prayer is the breath of the new creature." - Richard Baxter
"It is not enough for the believer to begin to pray, nor to pray correctly; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray. We must
patiently, believingly continue in prayer until we obtain an answer." - George Muller
“…Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed...And He blessed him there.”
"We greatly need someone who can set the saints to this business of praying; and he one who can set the church to praying will be the greatest of reformers and apostles.” – E.M. Bounds
"He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination." - Proverbs 28:9
"Prayer changes us! So many want to change God - His ways, His plans, His thoughts, His holiness and His order. And they use prayer to this end. This is an abuse of prayer. Prayer changes us, makes us bend, opens our eyes, and gives us a yielding heart. Where true prayer ascends, true saints bend." - K. Malcomson
"You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed." - A.J. Gordon
"The prayers of God's saints are the capitol stock in Heaven by which Christ carries on His great work upon the earth." - E.M. Bounds
"0h brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber." Andrew A. Bonar
In the old days, we got down on our knees before God, and we wept, and we prayed for lost souls. Then we preached in the power of the Holy Spirit." - James A. Stewart
"An ounce of believing prayer is worth a ton of edifying talk. John Cowan
"Even though we may not take part audibly in the action, yet if we are there in a right spirit - there really to wait upon God, we marvelously help the tone of a meeting." - CHM
"God will do nothing except in answer to prayer." - John Wesley
True revival changes the moral climate of an area or a nation. Without exception, all true revivals of the past began after years of agonizing, hell-robbing, earth-shaking, heaven-sent intercession. The secret to true revival in our own day is still
the same. But where, oh, where, are the intercessors?" - Leonard Ravenhill
"You must go forward on your knees." - Hudson Taylor
"You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God...This kind of prayer, be sure, the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this
flame." - William Booth
"Give yourselves to prayer and the ministry of the Word. If you do not pray, God will probably lay you aside from your ministry, as He did me, to teach you to pray." - Robert Murray McCheyne
"O Brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper- and sleep too- than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber." - Andrew Bonar
"Holy living is essential preparation for prayer." - E.M. Bounds
"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
"The greatest hindrance to effective prayer is sin. Satan's greatest goal is to keep us from our knees." - Dick Eastman
"Prayerlessness is sin." - Harold Lindsell
"Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest." - Thomas Hooker (Puritan Preacher)
"The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God." - Herbert Lockyer
"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
"A man who kneels before God will stand before men." - Leonard Ravenhill
"The secret of praying is praying in secret." -- Leonard Ravenhill
"Prayer itself is an art which only the Holy Ghost can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer. Pray for prayer - pray till you
can pray." - C.H. Spurgeon
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." - Phillips Brooks
"Prevailing prayer is prayer that pushes right through all difficulties and obstacles, drives back all the opposing forces of Satan, and secures the will of God. Its purpose is to accomplish God's will on earth. Prevailing prayer is prayer that not only takes the initiative but continues on the offensive for God until spiritual victory is won." - Wesley L. Duewel
"Every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world." - E. M. Bounds
"God does nothing but in answer to prayer." - John Wesley
"No man - I don't care how colossal his intellect - No man is greater than his prayer life." - Leonard Ravenhill
"When we become too glib in prayer we are most surely talking to ourselves." - A.W. Tozer
"He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer
chamber than anything else." - E.M.Bounds
"I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit." - Oswald J. Smith
"A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry
for God." - Leonard Ravenhill
"God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret." - Thomas Brooks.
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?-- Corrie Ten Boom
"He who prays as he ought will endeavor to live as he prays." - John Owen
"All it takes to make a preacher is a sermon - but it takes an altar to make a man of God." - B.H. Clendennen
"Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness." - William Carey
"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 Allelne
"I have benefitted greatly by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for myself." - Samuel Rutherford
"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. The devil fears nothing from prayer less-studies, prayerless work, prayerless religion, He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray." - Samuel Chadwick
"We may cry to God, and desire him to write down all our injuries: shall not the child complain to his father? When any burden is upon the spirit, prayer gives vent, it easeth the heart. Hannah's spirit was burdened; 'I am' says she, 'a woman of a sorrowful spirit.' Now having prayed, and wept, she went away, and was no more sad; only here is the difference between a holy complaint and a discontented complaint; in the one we complain to God, in the other we complain of God." - Thomas Watson
"The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray." - A.W. Tozer