quotes on prayer

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


"Work as if everything depended upon your work,
and pray as if everything depended upon your prayer."
William Booth


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


"The true man of God is heartsick,
grieved at the worldliness of the Church...
grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church,
grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church.
He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church
no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil."
Leonard Ravenhill


"The Church gives more time,
thought,
and money
to recreation and sport
than to prayer."
Samuel Chadwick


"Are you living for the things you are praying for?"
Austin Phelps


“If we are full of pride and conceit
and ambition and self-seeking
and pleasure and the world,
there is no room for the Spirit of God,
and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him
when he is full already with something else.”
D.L. Moody


“God sends no one away empty
except those who are full of themselves.”
D.L. Moody


“The best prayers often have more groans than words.”
John Bunyon


“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words,
than words without a heart.”
John Bunyan


“Prayer is a shield to the soul,
a sacrifice to God,
and a scourge to Satan.”
John Bunyan


“The Word of God represents
all the possibilities of God
as at the disposal of true prayer."
A. T. Pierson


“The reason why many fail in battle is because they wait until the hour of battle.
The reason why others succeed is because they have gained their victory
on their knees long before the battle came...
Anticipate your battles;
fight them on your knees before temptation comes,
and you will always have victory.”
R. A. Torrey


“We Christians too often substitute prayer for playing the game.
Prayer is good;
but when used as a substitute for obedience,
it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy,
a despicable Pharisaism...
To your knees, man!
and to your Bible!
Decide at once!
Don't hedge!
Time flies!
Cease your insults to God,
quit consulting flesh and blood.
Stop your lame,
lying,
and cowardly excuses.
Enlist! "
C. T. Studd


“If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels,
or watching TV,
or going to the movies,
or talking to friends,
rather than just sitting alone with God and embracing Him,
sharing His cares and His burdens,
weeping and rejoicing with Him,
then how are you going to handle forever and ever in His presence...?
You'd be bored to tears in heaven,
if you're not ecstatic about God now!”
Keith Green


“I have seen many men work without praying,
though I have never seen any good come out of it;
but I have never seen a man pray without working.”
James Hudson Taylor


“I never preach a sermon until I have soaked it in prayer.”
Billy Sunday


"Men are God's method.
The church is looking for better methods;
God is looking for better men.
What the church needs today is not more machinery or better,
not new organizations or more and novel methods,
but men who the Holy Spirit can use -
men of prayer,
men mighty in prayer.
The Holy Spirit does not come on machinery but on men.
He does not anoint plans,
but men -
men of prayer."
Edward McKendree (E. M.) Bounds