Inspirational Prayer Quotes

To pray is to change. Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us. If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The more we pray, the more we come to heartbeat of God. Prayer starts the communication process between ourselves and God. All the options of life fall before us. At that point we will either forsake our prayer life and cease to grow, or we will pursue our prayer life and let Him change us. ~ Richard Foster

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray. They have not time. It must be taken from something else. This something else is very important. Very important and pressing, but still less important and less pressing than prayer. ~ S.D. Gordon

Poverty stricken as the church is today in many things, she is most stricken here, in the place of prayer. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, but few prayers; many singers but few lingerers; lots of pastors but few wrestlers; many fears, few tears; much fashion, but little passion; many interferers, but few intercessors; many writers, but few fighters. Failing here, we fail everywhere. ~ Leonard Ravenhill

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them. ~ Richard Baxter

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. ~ Charles Spurgeon

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays. ~ John Masefield

If your day is hemmed in with prayer, it is less likely to come unraveled. ~

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message%u2026. ~ Oswald Chambers

Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer. ~ Charles Finney

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.... ~ R.A.Torrey

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer. ~ David Bryant

God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil.... ~ E.M.Bounds

It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone. ~ Hudson Taylor

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. ~ D.A.T. Pierson

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. ~ Oswald Chambers

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray, (not) those who talk about prayer...but I mean those who take time and pray. ~ S.D.Gordon

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice. ~ J.H. Jowett

Work, work, from morning until late at night. In fact, I have so much to do that I shall have to spend the first three hours in prayer. ~ Martin Luther

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees. ~ Billy Graham

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God. ~ Oswald Chambers

Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine. ~ Andrew Murray

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies. ~ Frank C. Laubach

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. ~ J. Sidlow Baxter

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. ~ Oswald Chambers

To desire revival...and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another. ~ A.W. Tozer

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. ~ Anselm of Canterbury

Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural. ~ Oswald Chambers

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King...the fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down. ~ Campbell Morgan

I did not see that it is the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.... ~ C.S. Lewis

If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship. ~ A.W. Tozer

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. ~ Oswald Chambers

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine. ~ Andrew Murray

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer. ~ Edwin Orr

The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity...if we want to see might wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God's standing challenge, "Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not. ~ J. Hudson Taylor

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has gone through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are-yet was without sin. Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:14-16

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me. Revelation 3:20

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7

I want men everywhere to lift up holy hands in prayer, without anger or disputing. I Timothy 2:8

And 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 saints. Ephesians 6:18

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective. James 5:16

Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. I Thessalonians 5:16-18

Therefore be clear minded and self-controlled so that you can pray. I Peter 4:7

But you, dear friends, build yourselves up in your most holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Jude 1:20

Is any one of you in trouble? He should pray. Is anyone happy? Let him sing songs of praise. Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. James 5:13-14