Christian Prayer Quotes

My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian. ~ George Whitefield

To him who prays, and as he prays, the hour is sacred because it is God's hour ~ E. M. Bounds

The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads ~ Fulton J. Sheen

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren. ~ John Newton

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive. ~ Pope John Paul II

All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them. ~ Elisabeth Elliot

God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all things; and that man is not serving God aright, who can only serve Him in his own self-chosen way. ~ Johannes Tauler

It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him. ~ William Barclay

Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required. ~ R.C. Sproul

Negligence in prayer withers the inner man. Nothing can be a substitute for it, not even Christian work. Many are so preoccupied with work that they allow little time for prayer. Hence they cannot cast out demons. Prayer enables us first inwardly to overcome the enemy and then outwardly to deal with him. ~ Watchman Nee

Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying. ~ Paul Billheimer

The idea that I would get to see this revival was almost overwhelming. And in the last decade or so, I believe we have seen this revival begin to sweep the earth. We have seen amazing moves of God in Africa Recently, I was in China and met with the underground church. I was told there are at least forty-five million Full Gospel Christians in China. I discovered a depth of prayer and integrity there that I have not felt anywhere else in the world So I believe we are seeing Wigglesworth's prophecy begin to be fulfilled. We are seeing the first stages of it. ~ Lester Sumrall

The Christian is not always praying; but within his bosom is a heaven-kindled love
fires of desire, fervent longings
which make him always ready to pray, and often engage him in prayer. ~ Thomas Guthrie

The enemy just hates our prayers. ~ Francis Chan

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve. ~ Rick Warren

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian. ~ Andy Murray

True prayer is measured by weight, not by length ~ Charles Spurgeon

My only wish isto transform friends of God into friends of man, believers into thinkers, devotees of prayer into devotees of work, candidates for the hereafter into students of the world, Christians who, by their own procession and admission, are half animal, half angel into persons, into whole persons. ~ Ludwig Feuerbach

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

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer. ~ J.C. Ryle

Prayer is not a preparation for the battle; it is the battle! ~ Leonard Ravenhill

I became a Christian man in a very real way. I could have just said the prayers that were on the page, but it was a real thing that really saved me. And you can't identify unless you're really going through it. It's a full-blown exchange of heart, a surrender of control. ~ Shia Labeouf

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person. ~ Emil Brunner

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him. ~ Teresa Of Avila

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny. ~ John Owen

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

Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those reactions, I think, 'I should pray about this.' ~ Catriona Le May Doan

Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon? ~ Peter Forsyth

The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief. ~ T. S. Eliot

Prayer is a powerful weapon. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Someone has described the modern American as a person who drives a bank financed car over a bond financed highway on credit card gas to open a charge account at a department store so he can fill his savings and loan financed home with installment purchased furniture. may this also be a description of many modern professed Christians? And may this not be one reason why modern Christians have so little time to pray? Importunity combined with perfect faith in unconquerable! ~ Paul Billheimer

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life. ~ Richard Cecil

I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. ~ George Muller

Those called by Christ's name should order their lives. They should persevere in prayers and supplications and, in imitation of the angels, have their eyes lifted up to the Master above the heavens, praising and blessing Him with irreproachable conduct, and waiting for His mystical Coming. As the Psalmist says to Him, 'I will sing and will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt Thou come unto me?' (Ps. 101:2). ~ Gregory Palamas

We shall never see much change for the better in our churches in general till the prayer meeting occupies a higher place in the esteem of Christians. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending. ~ David Jeremiah

Love is kindled in a flame, and ardency is its life. Flame is the air which true Christian experience breathes. It feeds on fire; it can withstand anything rather than a feeble flame; but when the surrounding atmosphere is frigid or lukewarm, it dies, chilled and starved to its vitals. True prayer must be aflame. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors. ~ John Calvin

The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer. ~ R.A. Torrey

The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes. ~ John Of Ruysbroeck

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever. ~ Martin Luther

Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle. ~ C.S. Lewis

Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation - no organization - no city - no office. There is no power on earth that can keep intercession out. ~ Richard Halverson

When we cannot pray as we would, it is good to pray as we can. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven ... ~ Adam Clarke

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer. ~ John Bunyan

We will only advance in our evangelistic work as fast and as far as we advance on our knees. Prayer opens the channel between a soul and God; prayerlessness closes it. Prayer releases the grip of Satan's power; prayerlessness increases it. That is why prayer is so exhausting and so vital. If we believed it, the prayer meeting would be as full as the church. ~ Alan Redpath

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way. ~ Teresa Of Avila

Prayer can never be in excess. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the breath, the watchword, the comfort, the strength, the honor of a Christian. ~ Charles Spurgeon

We know that prayer in and of itself cannot save us, but carrying it out before God can. For when the Lord's eyes are upon us He sanctifies us, as the sun warms everything upon which it shines. ~ Gregory Palamas

Rediscover the real meaning of the Great Commission. Beginning in our own prayer and devotional lives, we must begin to feel the compassion of the Lord for a lost and dying world. As we have already seen, the Great Commission is not something that was given to a tiny group of specially trained and educated envoys. It was given to all Christians - to the whole Church. It is something that we are all to be engaged in naturally every day. ~ K.P. Yohannan

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer ~ Catherine Marshall

Delay is not denial.There is a waiting time ~ Ikechukwu Joseph

Prayer is an act of worship to God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption. ~ Adoniram Judson

I want to feel my own nothingness, I want to give myself up in absolute resignation to God, to lie prostrate and passive at His feet, with no other disposition in my heart than that of merging my will into His will, and no other language in my mouth than that of prayer for the perfecting of His strength in my weakness. ~ Thomas Chalmers

Let us think of a Christian believer in whose life the twin wonders of repentance and the new birth have been wrought. He is now living according to the will of God as he understands it from the written Word. Of such a one it may be said that every act of his life is or can be as truly sacred as prayer or baptism or the Lord's Supper. To say this is not to bring all acts down to one dead level; it is rather to lift every act up into a living kingdom and turn the whole of life into a sacrament. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

For in a civilization which has lost the meaning of life, the most important thing a Christian can do is to live, and life, understood from the point of view of faith, has an extraordinary explosive force. ~ Jacques Ellul

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time. ~ Francis Chan

What changed these very ordinary men (who were such cowards that they did not dare stand too near the cross in case they got involved) into heroes who would stop at nothing? A swindle? Hallucination? Spooky nonsense in a darkened room? Or Somebody quietly doing what He said He'd do - walk right through death? What do you think? ~ John Bertram Phillips

If weak in prayer we are weak everywhere. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos ~ Beth Moore

So the preacher of the gospel asks your prayers: and it is a part of the duties arising out of the relationship between Christian men that those who are taught should pray for those who teach God's Word. ~ Charles Spurgeon

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. ~ Pope John Paul II

Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us. ~ Peter Forsyth

The story of every great Christian achievement is the history of answered prayer. ~ Edward McKendree Bounds

The best praying man is the man who is most believingly familiar with the promises of God. After all, prayer is nothing but taking God's promises to him, and saying to him, "Do as thou hast said." Prayer is the promise utilized. A prayer which is not based on a promise has no true foundation. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer. ~ William Booth

If within us we find nothing over us we succumb to what is around us. ~ Peter Forsyth

Prayer is the answer to every problem there is. ~ Oswald Chambers

I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver a message through the wilderness. In prayer the human spirit can send invisible waves to eternity, waves that achieve their goal in front of God. ~ Guglielmo Marconi

We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on! ~ Nicky Cruz

It has taken countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and emotional turmoil to bring me to the place where I am finally ready to call for the full acceptance of Christian gay couples into the Church. ~ Tony Campolo

Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy but do not want to engage in serious Bible study; they value moral probity, especially of the public sort, but do not engage in war against inner corruptions; they fret over the quality of the preacher's sermon but do not worry much over the quality of their own prayer life. Such Christians are content with mediocrity. ~ D. A. Carson

Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer? ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes. ~ Oswald Chambers

My only prayer for my time with you is, "God I just want these men and women to long for you." ~ Francis Chan

You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests. ~ Saint John Chrysostom

Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies. ~ Alvin Boyd Kuhn

Anything that dims my vision of Christ, or takes away my taste for Bible study, or cramps my prayer life, or makes Christian work difficult, is wrong for me, and I must, as a Christian, turn away from it. ~ J. Wilbur Chapman

All God's giants have been weak men and women who have gotten hold of God's faithfulness. ~ Hudson Taylor

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect. ~ John Piper

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are "harmless," and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places. Meekness must be had for contact with men, but brass, outspoken boldness is required to take part in the comradeship of the Cross. We are "sideliners"
coaching and criticizing the real wrestlers while content to sit by and leave the enemies of God unchallenged. The world cannot hate us, we are too much like its own. Oh that God would make us dangerous! ~ Jim Elliot

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. ~ Martin Luther

Firmly believe that the Lord is at all times everything to you. During prayer He is the power and the fulfillment in the Holy Spirit of each of your words. During pious conversation He is your living water, the ardent flow of your words at all times ? He is everything to you. Be free from care in the presence of your Lord. He has enclosed you with Himself upon all sides. He penetrates you wholly and knows all your thoughts, all your needs and inclinations, and if you live in Him with faith and love, then no evil shall befall you. 'The Lord is at hand; be careful for nothing' (Phil. 4:6). ~ John Of Kronstadt

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness. ~ William Carey

When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer. ~ Richard Sibbes

If you have trouble hearing God speak, you are in trouble at the very heart of your Christian experience. ~ Henry Blackaby

Thus it is in hell; they would die, but they cannot. The wicked shall be always dying but never dead; the smoke of the furnacedascends for ever and ever. Oh! who can endure thus to be ever upon the rack? This word "ever" breaks the heart. Wicked men do now think the Sabbaths long, and think a prayer long; but oh! how long will it be to lie in hell for ever and ever? ~ Thomas Watson

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him. ~ David McIntyre

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves. ~ Dwight L. Moody

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. ~ William Law

We must also consider the nature of prayer. It is curious that Christians are pushing so strenuously for prayer which they don't believe to he prayer. Christians pray to the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ-not to Allah, Krishna, or God-as-you-conceive-him/her-tobe. If we were successful in establishing Christian prayer in the
schools, we would be violating the religious liberties of those who are not Christians. If we establish prayer that is not Christian, what have we gained? Why fight to get prayer in the schools when you believe the prayers, once instituted, won't get past the ceiling? Do we really want our children led in a daily vain repetition? ~ Douglas Wilson

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will. ~ George MacDonald