Some meaningful sayings on prayer....

Some of my favorite sayings on prayer:

"The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish" - Adrian Rogers

"God does nothing but by prayer and everything with it" - John Wesley

"I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer" - Charles Spurgeon

"Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused" - Charles Spurgeon

"The Lord intends us to be powerful people - mighty in optimism and hopeful in spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching"' - David Jeremiah

"I firmly believed a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone" - DL Moody

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

"Work, work, from morning till 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

"Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended on man" - Francis Spellman



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

"God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede" - 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

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work" - Oswald Chambers


"God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays" - John Masefield

"In worship, God imparts himself to us" - C. S. Lewis

"No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil, not that he practises it, but he suffers from it" - Guy King

"Until you know that life is war, you cannot know what prayer is for" - John Piper

"Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God" - Edwin Keith

"We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength" - Charles Stanley

"Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important" - Charles Stanley

"The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditation on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom" - Charles Stanley

"When God speaks, oftentimes His voice will call for an act of courage on our part" - Charles Stanley

"Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Isa 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength" - Charles Stanley

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

"History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer" - Edwin Orr

"It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone" - Hudson Taylor

"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers" - 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