R. A. Torrey Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• 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

  Motivational, Success, Christian

  R. A. Torrey, Edward D. Andrews (2016). “CHRISTIAN LIVING: How to Succeed in the Christian Life [Updated and Expanded]”, p.259, Christian Publishing House

• All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Omnipotent, Can Do

  "The Power of Prayer".

• Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.

  R. A. Torrey

  God, Christian, Prayer

  Edward D. Andrews, R. A. Torrey (2016). “HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]”, p.43, Christian Publishing House

• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power. We have a great deal of activity, but we accomplish little; many services but few conversions; much machinery but few results.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Littles

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

• Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of much prayer.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Godly, Men

  Edward D. Andrews, R. A. Torrey (2016). “HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]”, p.18, Christian Publishing House

• Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Men, Hands

  R. A. Torrey (2009). “The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

• The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers."

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Giving Up, Believe

• When the devil sees a man or woman who really believes in prayer, who knows how to pray, and who really does pray, and, above all, when he sees a whole church on its face before God in prayer, he trembles as much as he ever did, for he knows that his day in that church or community is at an end.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Believe, Men

  R.A. Torrey (2015). “The Power of Prayer”, p.3, Ravenio Books

• Triumphant prayer is almost impossible where there is neglect of the study of the Word of God.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Christian Inspirational, Impossible

• We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Praying

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.58, Sword of the Lord Publishers

• I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.

  R. A. Torrey

  Brother, Prayer, Years

• If we then let the words of Christ abide in us, they will stir us up in prayer.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Christ, Ifs

  Edward D. Andrews, R. A. Torrey (2016). “HOW TO PRAY: The Importance of Prayer [Second Edition]”, p.42, Christian Publishing House

• The chief purpose of prayer is that God may be glorified in the answer.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, Purpose

• Prayer is the key that unlocks all the storehouses of God's. . .grace and power.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Keys, Grace

• If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Believe, Talking

  R.A Torrey, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOW TO PRAY”, Lulu.com

• Every true revival from that day to this has had its earthly origin in prayer.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Revival, Very True

  "The Power of Prayer and the Prayer of Power".

• Prayer can do anything that God can do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Prayer, One Line

  R.A. Torrey (2015). “The Power of Prayer”, p.4, Ravenio Books

• God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.

  R. A. Torrey

  Christian, Strong, Prayer

  R.A. Torrey (2012). “Rewards Of Prayer: 5-in-1 Anthology”, p.209, Whitaker House

• We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Blood, Knowing

  R. A. Torrey (2000). “How to Obtain Fullness of Power”, p.19, Sword of the Lord Publishers

• The Devil is perfectly willing that the church should multiply its organizations and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying...The Devil is not afraid of machinery; he is only afraid of God. And machinery without prayer is machinery without God.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Giving Up, Organization

• Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Soul, Wish

• 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

  Prayer, Spirit, Helping

• When the perceptive child of God stops to weigh the meaning of these words, then notes the connection in which they are found, he or she is driven to say, I must pray, pray, pray. I must put all my energy and heart into prayer. Whatever else I do, I must pray.

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  Prayer, Children, Heart

• Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

  R. A. Torrey

  Prayer, Holiness, Study

  R. A. Torrey (1991). “The Best of R. A. Torrey”

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