- “Prayer is where the action is.” John Wesley
- “Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!” Andrew Murray
- “…True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length.” C. H. Spurgeon
- “Prayer can never be in excess.” C. H. Spurgeon
- “Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.” E. M. Bounds
- “We must hear, know, and obey the will of God before we pray it into the lives of others.” Richard J. Foster
- “We must never wait until we feel like praying before we pray for others.” Richard J. Foster
- “No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.” Guy H. King
- “We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.” Oswald Chambers
- “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
- “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
- “An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.” Charles Stanley
- “Until you know that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for.” John Piper
- “There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.” John G. Lake
- “Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.” Jaques Ellul
- “There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful that that of a continual conversation with God.” Brother Lawrence
- “Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God’s conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn’t get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.” Eugene Peterson
- “One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.” Catherine Marshall
- “Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.” Mother Teresa
- “I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” Martin Luther
- “To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.” John Calvin
If you’re looking for a great book on prayer, check out E.M. Bounds on Prayer.
Have you ever had God say no to your prayers? Read What to Do When God Says No.
What are some other quotes on prayer that have changed the way you pray?
