Christian Prayer Quotes

• 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

  God, Faith, Christian

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• ...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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Weight, May

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.30, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Christian, Prayer, Laughing

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• To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

  Martin Luther

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

  Attributed in "Talking it over" by George Sweeting, (p. 88), September 1, 1979.

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• 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 Grandison Finney

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.114

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• Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Inspirational, Prayer, Powerful God

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• We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

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• Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Prayer, Men

  John Bunyan (1831). “The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford”, p.96

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• Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Prayer, Attitude, Good Christian

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.217, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

  William Carey

  Prayer, Lying, Believe

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• Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Saint, Bars

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• All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

  Martin Luther

  Prayer, Praying, Heard

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• Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Faith, God, Christian

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• 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

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• As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Prayer, Shoes

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• The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Strong, Prayer, Made

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1976). “The necessity of prayer”, Baker Pub Group

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• If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Prayer, Abiding

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.35, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

  Richard Cecil

  Christian, Patience, Prayer

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• Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Classroom, Revival

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

  J. Sidlow Baxter

  Faith, Christian, Prayer

  "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

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• Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Honor, Aids

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.30, CCEL

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• Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.

  Oswald Chambers

  Prayer, Doe, Fit

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.61, Discovery House

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• Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Laughing, Kneeling

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• Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Rain, Men

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• When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

  William Temple

  Prayer, Coincidence, Praying

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