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Prayer is not eloquence  but earnestness  not the definition of helplessness  but the feeling of it  not figures of speech  but earnestness of soul.
— Hannah More
Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.
— O. Hallesby
If we rely on the Holy Spirit  we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate  and when they are inarticulate  reverence grows deeper and deeper.
— Oswald Chambers
God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked.
— Voltaire
We cannot all argue  but we can all pray  we cannot all be leaders  but we can all be pleaders  we cannot all be mighty in rhetoric  but we can all be prevalent in prayer.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
— John Bunyan
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
— John Bunyan
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity  speak to Him frankly and plainly  and implore His assistance in our affairs.
— Brother Lawrence
Prayer is not artful monologue Of voice uplifted from the son  It is Love's tender dialogue Between the soul and God.
— John Richard Moreland
They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans' home who had an incurable stutter. One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead. He did it perfectly  too  without a single stutter. Later he explained  "I don't stutter when I talk to God. He loves me."
— Bennett Cerf
Our groanings  which cannot be uttered  rise to Him and tell Him better than words how dependent we are upon Him.
— O. Hallesby
When prayer is a struggle  do not worry about the prayers that you cannot pray. You yourself are a prayer to God at that moment. All that is within you cries out to Him. And He hears all the pleas that your suffering soul and body are making to Him with groanings which cannot be uttered.
— O. Hallesby
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
— Adam Clarke
Productive prayer requires earnestness  not eloquence.
— Anonymous
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.
— Ruth Graham
Prayer is a fine  delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art  a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted  the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer.
— O. Hallesby
With God there is no need for long speeches.
— Jane Frances de Chantal
In prayer  more is accomplished by listening than by talking.
— Jane Frances de Chantal
Prayer should be short  without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that  He knows best what is good for us.
— John Selden
God is in heaven  and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
— Bible
Many words do not a good prayer make  what counts is the heartfelt desire to commune with God  and the faith to back it up.
— Anonymous
A little lifting of the heart suffices  a little remembrance of God  one act of inward worship are prayers which  however short  are nevertheless acceptable to God.
— Brother Lawrence
There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words  I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God  "May I be in Thy presence  Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee  but I do love to be in Thy presence."
— O. Hallesby
Short prayers pierceth Heaven.
— Anonymous
You are coming to a King  Large petitions with you bring For his grace and power are such None can ever ask too much.
— John Newton
There is no sinner in the world  however much at enmity with God  who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary  and by asking her assistance.
— Saint Bridget of Sweden
Most Christians expect little from God  ask little  and therefore receive little and are content with little.
— A. W. Pink
Ye have not  because ye ask not.
— Bible
Ye ask  and receive not  because ye ask amiss.
— Bible
Ask  and it shall be given you  seek  and ye shall find  knock  and it shall be opened unto you.
— Bible
Whether we like it or not  asking is the rule of the Kingdom.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The simple heart that freely asks in love  obtains.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems  and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case  we are asking God to do it our way.
— Bill W.
It is the will of our heavenly Father that we should come to Him freely and confidently and make known our desires to Him  just as we would have our children come freely and of their own accord and speak to us about the things they would like to have.
— O. Hallesby
My praying friend  continue to make known your desires to God in all things. ... Let Him decide whether you are to receive what you ask for or not.
— O. Hallesby
Let your requests be made known unto God.
— Bible
Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission  not only to stand in the presence of God  but also to pray for everything you need.
— O. Hallesby
And whatever ye shall ask in my name  that will I do.
— Bible
We should not be afraid  when praying to God  to give expression to a definite desire  even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.
— O. Hallesby
We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors  and nothing more.
— E. M. Bounds
Prayer is not only asking  it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural  and Jesus says  "every one that asketh receiveth."
— Oswald Chambers
Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.
— O. Hallesby
To avail yourself of His certain wisdom  ask of Him whatever questions you have. But do not entreat Him  for that will never be necessary.
— Hugh Prather
O Lord  attend unto my cry.
— Bible
When praying for healing  ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters  the healing of the heart  enabling us to trust God simply  face God honestly  and live triumphantly.
— Arlo F. Newell
Most people do not pray  they only beg.
— George Bernard Shaw
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer in the sense of petition  asking for things  is a small part of it  confession and penitence are its threshold  adoration its sanctuary  the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
— C. S. Lewis
God never denied that soul anything that went as far as heaven to ask it.
— John Trapp
Ask in faith.
— Bible
If your prayer is selfish  the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all  but it is sure to be there.
— William Temple
Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.
— A. W. Tozer
I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
— Samuel Rutherford
When we make self the end of prayer  it is not worship but self-seeking.
— Thomas Manton
Pray for one another.
— Bible
Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all  he is connected with God by prayer  and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
— Oswald Chambers
He who prays for his neighbors will be heard for himself.
— Talmud
We should say to God as we mingle with our dear ones each day  "God  give them each Thy blessing. They need it  because they live with me  and I am very selfish and unwilling to sacrifice very much for them  although I do love them."
— O. Hallesby
See to it  night and day  that you pray for your children. Then you will leave them a great legacy of answers to prayer  which will follow them all the days of their life. Then you may calmly and with a good conscience depart from them  even though you may not leave them a great deal of material wealth.
— O. Hallesby
Religion without humanity is a poor human stuff.
— Sojourner Truth
God bless all those that I love  God bless all those that love me  God bless all those that love those that I love and all those that love those that love me.
— New England Sampler
No one who has had a unique experience with prayer has a right to withhold it from others.
— Soong Mei-ling
Thou who has given so much to me  give one thing more: a grateful heart.
— George Herbert
Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks.
— Bible
Fear of trouble  present and future  often blinds us to the numerous small blessings we enjoy  silencing our prayers of praise and thanksgiving.
— Anonymous
God deserves far more praise than any of us could ever give Him.
— Anonymous
Our Father  let the spirit of gratitude so prevail in our hearts that we may manifest thy Spirit in our lives.
— W. B. Slack
A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.
— John Bunyan
God receives little thanks  even for his greatest gifts.
— Anonymous
It is not only blessed to give thanks  it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him  then it becomes easier for us  and we get more courage  to pray for more.
— O. Hallesby
To stand on one leg and prove God's existence is a very different thing from going down on one's knees and thanking him.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.
— Anonymous
Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him  "I thank Thee  Savior  because Thou hast died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.
— O. Hallesby
The idea of thanking staff should mean giving them something that they would never buy for themselves.
— Jayne Crook
Let us thank God heartily as often as we pray that we have His Spirit in us to teach us to pray. Thanksgiving will draw our hearts out to God and keep us engaged with Him  it will take our attention from ourselves and give the Spirit room in our hearts.
— Andrew Murray
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving.
— Bible
When we succeed in truly thanking God  we feel good at heart. The reason is that we have been created to give glory to God  now and for-evermore. And every time we do so  we feel that we are in harmony with His plans and purposes for our lives. Then we are truly in our element. That is why it is so blessed.
— O. Hallesby
Don't be timid when you pray  rather  batter the very gates of heaven with storms of prayer.
— Anonymous
Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it  be his life ever so wicked  for prayer is the way to amend it  and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.
— Teresa of Avila
How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up  they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills  with unshakable confidence.
— Herbert Lockyer
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
— Thomas B. Brooks
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer  like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
— J. C. Ryle
We may as well not pray at all as offer our prayers in a lifeless manner.
— William S. Plumer
There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires  listless efforts  lazy attitudes  all must be strenuous  urgent  ardent. Flamed desires  impassioned  unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.
— E. M. Bounds
It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends  for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
— E. M. Bounds
To say prayers in a decent  delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really  to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke  to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened  till the mountains of obstacles are removed  till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted  and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work  but it is God's work  and man's best labor.
— E. M. Bounds
Importunity is a condition of prayer. We are to press the matter  not with vain repetitions  but with urgent repetitions. We repeat  not to count the times  but to gain the prayer. We cannot quit praying because heart and soul are in it. We pray "with all perseverance." We hang to our prayers because by them we live. We press our pleas because we must have them  or die.
— E. M. Bounds
The effectual  fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
— Bible
From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints  good Lord  deliver us.
— Teresa of Avila
Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh  that I may be a man of prayer!
— Henry Martyn
Look  as a painted man is no man  and as painted fire is no fire  so a cold prayer is no prayer.
— Thomas B. Brooks
There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.
— William Jenkyn
Bear up the hands that hang down  by faith and prayer  support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein  and mercy will come down.
— John Wesley
Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray  for prayer requires strength.
— J. Hudson Taylor
In Fellowship  alone To God  with Faith  draw near  Approach His Courts  besiege His Throne With all the power of Prayer.
— Charles Wesley
Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get faint-hearted and quit praying at the point where we ought to begin. We let go at the very point where we should hold on strongest. Our prayers are weak because they are not impassioned by an unfailing and resistless will.
— E. M. Bounds
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
— A. B. Simpson
We do pray for mercy  and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.
— William Shakespeare
Our prayers should be for blessings in general  for God knows best what is good for us.
— Socrates
Lord  take my lips and speak through them  take my mind and think through it  take my heart and set it on fire.
— W. H. Aitken
Not what we wish  but what we need  Oh! let your grace supply  The good unasked  in mercy grant  The ill  though asked  deny.
— James Merrick
We should pray for a sane mind in a sound body.
— Juvenal
If we are to pray aright  perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important  but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer  not the poverty of our heart.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
O Lord  help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.
— William Penn
We are going home to many who cannot read. So  Lord  make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.
— Anonymous Chinese woman
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
— Matthew Henry
Help me to work and pray  Help me to live each day  That all I do may say  Thy kingdom come.
— A. B. Simpson
We must pray for more prayer  for it is the world's mightiest healing force.
— Frank C. Laubach
O Lord  let me not live to be useless!
— Bishop John de Stratford
God give me work  till my life shall end And life  till my work is done.
— Winifred Holtby
Watch your motive before God  have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
— Oswald Chambers
For we know not what we should pray for.
— Bible
Pray a little each day in a childlike way for the Spirit of prayer. If you feel that you know  as yet  very little concerning the deep things of prayer and what prayer really is  then pray for the Spirit of prayer. There is nothing He would rather do than unveil to you the grace of prayer.
— O. Hallesby
God does not exist to answer our prayers  but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.
— Oswald Chambers
I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet: for calmness to remember or courage to forget.
— Charles Hamilton Aide
The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience  the next for health of mind  and then of body.
— Seneca
When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God  then we are in complete harmony with the spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
— O. Hallesby
Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.
— Saint Francis of Assisi
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless  but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
— George Meredith
The purpose of prayer is not to inform God of our needs  but to invite Him to rule our lives.
— Clarence Bauman
Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.
— Samuel M. Shoemaker
O Lord  forgive what I have been  sanctify what I am  and order what I shall be.
— Anonymous
Spread out your petition before God  and then say  "Thy will  not mine  be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.
— Dwight L. Moody
Show me your ways  O Lord  teach me your paths  guide me in your truth and teach me  for you are God my Savior  and my hope is in you all day long.
— Bible
The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God  for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.
— E. M. Bounds
If we ask anything according to his will  he heareth us.
— Bible
I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray  pray thyself in me.
— Francois de Fenelon
True prayer brings a person's will into accordance with God's will  not the other way around.
— Anonymous
Do not forget that prayer is ordained for the purpose of glorifying the name of God. Therefore  whether you pray for big things or for little things  say to God  "If it will glorify Thy name  then grant my prayer and help me."
— O. Hallesby
It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
— O. Hallesby
I used to pray that God would do this or that  now I pray that God will make His will known to me.
— Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
How many of us will ever sit... bow our heads  and pray "Lord  show me where I'm wrong"?
— Anonymous
Women don't have halos built in.
— Lorraine Hine
A Chinese Christian prayed every day .... "Lord  reform Thy world  beginning with me."
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Create in me a clean heart  O God.
— Bible
Do not pray for easy lives  pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers  pray for powers equal to your tasks.
— Phillips Brooks
The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger  but for deliverance from fear.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
— C. S. Lewis
Pray not for lighter burdens  but for stronger backs.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought  feeling  yearning  or desire  however low  trifling  or vulgar we may deem it  which if it affects our real interest or happiness  we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him  though it has wearied man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
What a friend we have in Jesus  All our sins and griefs to bear! What a privilege to carry Everything to God in Prayer! Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged  Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden  Cumbered with a load of care? Precious Savior  still our refuge  Take it to the Lord in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit  O what needless pain we bear  All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer!
— Joseph Scriven
Take my will  and make it Thine  It shall be no longer mine  Take my heart  it is Thine own  It shall be Thy royal throne.
— Frances Ridley Havergal
And since He bids me seek His face  Believe His word and trust His grace  I'll cast on Him my every care  And wait for thee  sweet hour of prayer.
— W. W. Walford
We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.
— Robert Leighton
Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.
— E. M. Bounds
I know not by what methods rare  But this I know: God answers prayer. I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to Him alone Whose will is wiser than my own.
— Eliza M. Hickok
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
— Saint Augustine
Do not want things to turn out as they seem best to you  but as God pleases. Then you will be free from confusion  and thankful in prayer.
— The Desert Fathers
O Lord  you know what is best for me. Let this or that be done  as you please. Give what you will  how much you will  and when you will.
— Thomas a Kempis
Casting all your care upon Him  for he careth for you.
— Bible
Do not strive in your own strength  cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus  and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you  and works in you. Strive in prayer  let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord  and in the power of His might.
— Andrew Murray
A humble and contrite heart knows that it can merit nothing before God  and that all that is necessary is to be reconciled to one's helplessness and let our holy and almighty God care for us  just as an infant surrenders himself to his mother's care.
— O. Hallesby
Cast thy burden upon the Lord  and he shall sustain thee.
— Psalms ss:zx
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is  O ye gods  give me whatever is fitting unto me!
— Appollonius of Tyana
Our prayer life will become restful when it really dawns upon us that we have done all we are supposed to do when we have spoken to Him about it. From the moment we have left it with Him  it is His responsi-bility.
— O. Hallesby
This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a crisis  and then the confidence to leave the result to a Higher Power. Only by trust in God can a man carrying responsibility find repose.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Before we can pray  "Lord  Thy Kingdom come " we must be willing to pray  "My Kingdom go."
— Alan Redpath
We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know Jesus in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.
— O. Hallesby
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
— J. C. Ryle
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.
— Dwight L. Moody
When you pray for anyone  you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
— Norman Vincent Peale
When my children do wrong  I ache to hear their stumbling requests for forgiveness. I'm sure our heavenly Father aches even more deeply to hear from us.
— Anonymous
There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him.
— William Law
Ask God's blessing on your work  but don't ask him to do it for you.
— Dame Flora Robson
Prayer indeed is good  but while calling on the gods  a man should himself lend a hand.
— Hippocrates
Prayer  among sane people  has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
— George Santayana
It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray.
— Aesop
He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
Pray as if everything depended on God  and work as if everything depended upon man.
— Archbishop Francis J. Spellman
Help yourself and heaven will help you.
— Jean de la Fontaine
Work as if you were to live one hundred years  pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
— Benjamin Franklin
God helps those who help themselves.
— German proverb
God help those who do not help themselves.
— Wilson Mizner
God gives every bird its food  but he does not throw it into the nest.
— Josiah G. Holland
Pray devoutly  but hammer stoutly.
— Sir William Gurney Benham
The Ancient Mariner said to Neptune during a great storm  "O God  you will save me if you wish  but I am going to go on holding my tiller straight."
— Michel de Montaigne
Pray to God  but keep rowing to shore.
— Russian proverb
Call on God  but row away from the rocks.
— Indian proverb
To the man who himself strives earnestly  God also lends a helping hand.
— Aeschylus
Trust in Allah  but tie your camel first.
— Arab proverb
It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.
— Epicurus
Always look for ways to act upon the faith you display in your prayers.
— Anonymous
You can do more than pray after you have prayed  but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.
— A. J. Gordon
Visualize  "prayerize " "actionize " and your wishes will come true.
— Charles L. Allen
Prayer is often a temptation to bank on a miracle of God instead of on a moral issue  i.e.  it is much easier to ask God to do my work than it is to do it myself. Until we are disciplined properly  we will always be inclined to bank on God's miracles and refuse to do the moral thing ourselves. It is our job  and it will never be done unless we do it.
— Oswald Chambers
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things  and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for  they think the whole thing is a fraud.
— Gerald Vann
Poverty  chastity  and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them.
— Katheryn Hulme
Real prayer seeks an audience and an answer.
— William S. Plumer
There are three answers to prayer: yes  no  and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.
— Ruth Stafford Peale
There are four ways God answers prayer: No  not yet  No  I love you too much  Yes  I thought you'd never ask  Yes  and here's more.
— Anne Lewis
No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit  every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.
— John Blanchard
God answers all true prayer  either in kind or in kindness.
— Adoniram Judson
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson
When I have a problem I pray about it  and what comes to mind and stays there I assume to be my answer. And this has been right so often that I know it is God's answer.
— J. L. Kraft
Whenever the insistence is on the point that God answers prayer  we are off the track. The meaning of prayer is that we get hold of God  not of the answer.
— Oswald Chambers
I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down and say a few words  and then jump up and forget it and expect God to answer them. Such praying always reminds me of the small boy ringing his neighbor's door-bell  and then running away as fast as he can go.
— E. M. Bounds
When I pray  coincidences happen  and when I don't  they don't.
— William Temple
Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer  getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things  He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.
— Oswald Chambers
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask  then He will give them  but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
— Oswald Chambers
You say  "But He has not answered." He has  He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet  but presently you will.
— Oswald Chambers
When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature  and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
— Oswald Chambers
God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses  we are in a very elementary condition of grace.
— Oswald Chambers
Who rises from prayer a better man  his prayer is answered.
— George Meredith
God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them  correct them  bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted.
— Stephen Crotts
The great tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer  but unoffered prayer.
— KB. Meyer
My prayers  my God  flow from what I am not  I think Thy answers make me what I am.
— George Macdonald
The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer  but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.
— Anonymous
God answers prayer with certainty. Wish fulfillment is something else.
— Anonymous
A generous prayer is never presented in vain  the petition may be refused  but the petitioner is always  I believe  rewarded by some gracious visitation.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.
— Thomas Jefferson
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
— John Calvin
There are two main pitfalls on the road to mastery of the art of prayer. If a person gets what he asks for  his humility is in danger. If he fails to get what he asks for  he is apt to lose confidence. Indeed  no matter whether prayer seems to be succeeding or failing  humility and confidence are two virtues which are absolutely essential.
— Anonymous
If we be empty and poor  it is not because God's hand is straitened  but ours is not opened.
— Thomas Manton
Our prayers are often filled with selfish "wants"  God always answers with what we need.
— Anonymous
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Though I am weak  yet God  when prayed  Cannot withhold his conquering aid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless  To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.
— John Newton
Whatever things ye desire  when ye pray  believe that you receive them  and ye shall have them.
— Bible
The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.
— T. L. Cuyler
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others  but then they return with their richer lading at last  so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
— William Gurnall
In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not. After that the idea that prayer is recommended to us as a sort of infallible gimmick may be dismissed.
— C. S. Lewis
Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do  who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."
— Roy M. Pearson
Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.
— T. L. Cuyler
In seasons of distress and grief  My soul has often found relief  And oft escaped the tempter's snare  By thy return  sweet hour of prayer.
— W. W. Walford
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers  And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. A gauntlet with a gift in't.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another  and by and by they meet.
— Adoniram Judson
God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.
— E. B. Pusey
Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations  for only He knows the whole story.
— Anonymous
May the Lord answer you when you are in distress  May the name of the God of Jacob protect you  May he send you help from the sanctuary and grant you support from Zion.
— Bible
Just when I need Him  He is my all  Answering when upon Him I call  Tenderly watching lest I should fall.
— William Poole
The king shall joy in thy strength  O Lord  and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! Thou hast given him his heart's desire  and hast not withheld the request of his lips.
— Bible
Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.
— William S. Plumer
When you go to your knees  God will help you stand up to anything.
— Anonymous
Prayer has marked the trees across the wilderness of a skeptical world to direct the traveler in distress  and all paths lead to a single light.
— Douglas Meador
Amazing things start happening when we start praying!
— Anonymous
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
— Mother Teresa
The man who prays grows  and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
— F. B. Meyer
Prayer opens our eyes that we may see ourselves and others as God sees us.
— Clara Palmer
It is impossible to lose your footing while on your knees.
— Anonymous
The exercise of prayer  in those who habitually exert it  must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.
— William James
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body ... can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy  greater intellectual vigor  moral stamina  and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationships.
— Dr. Alexis Carrel
The essence of prayer  even of a mystical experience  is the way we are altered to see everything from its life-filled dimension.
— Matthew Fox
Prayer puts God's work in His hands-and keeps it there.
— E. M. Bounds
It is hard to wait and press and pray  and hear no voice  but stay till God answers.
— E. M. Bounds
Pray because you have a Father  not because it quietens you  and give Him time to answer.
— Oswald Chambers
Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
— Bill W.
We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane  the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
— Oswald Chambers
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer  he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.
— Oswald Chambers
As white snow flakes fall quietly and thickly on a winter day  answers to prayer will settle down upon you at every step you take  even to your dying day. The story of your life will be the story of prayer and answers to prayer.
— O. Hallesby
God is a rich and bountiful Father  and He does not forget His children  nor withhold from them anything which it would be to their advantage to receive.
— J. K. Maclean
Just as an earthly father knows what is best for his children's welfare  so does God take into consideration the particular needs of His human family  and meets them out of His wonderful storehouse.
— J. K. Maclean
Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings  our home would  through God's answer to prayer  become a little paradise.
— O. Hallesby
God's willingness to answer our prayers exceeds our willingness to give good and necessary things to our children  just as far as God's ability  goodness and perfection exceed our infirmities and evil.
— E. M. Bounds
The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God  and that alters my view of actual things.
— Oswald Chambers
God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
— Oswald Chambers
The shower of answers to your prayers will continue to your dying hour. Nor will it cease then. When you pass out from beneath the shower  your dear ones will step into it. Every prayer and every sigh which you have uttered for them and their future welfare will  in God's time  descend upon them as a gentle rain of answers to prayer.
— O. Hallesby
If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down.
— Anna Delaney Peale
We  ignorant of ourselves  beg often our own harms  which the wise powers deny us for our good.
— William Shakespeare
Prayer is the easiest and hardest of all things  the simplest and the sublim-est  the weakest and the most powerful  its results lie outside the range of human possibilities-they are limited only by the omnipotence of God.
— E. M. Bounds
Prayer  like faith  obtains promises  enlarges their operation  and adds to the measure of their results.
— E. M. Bounds
If we will make use of prayer to call down upon ourselves and others those things which will glorify the name of God  then we shall see the strongest and boldest promises of the Bible about prayer fulfilled. Then we shall see such answers to prayer as we had never thought were possible.
— O. Hallesby
Let it be your business every day  in the secrecy of the inner chamber  to meet the holy God. You will be repaid for the trouble it may cost you. The reward will be sure and rich.
— Andrew Murray
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul  but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
— Oswald Chambers
If we pray for anything according to the will of God  we already have what we pray for the moment we ask it. We do not know exactly when it will arrive  but we have learned to know God through the Spirit of God  and have learned to leave this in His hands  and to live just as happily whether the answer arrives immediately or later.
— O. Hallesby
It is God's will not only to hear our prayer  but to give us the best and the richest answer which He  the almighty and omniscient God  can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.
— O. Hallesby
If God does not give you something you ask for  wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.
— O. Hallesby
The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire  it hath bridled the rage of lions  hushed anarchy to rest  extinguished wars  appeased the elements  expelled demons  burst the chains of death  expanded the gates of heaven  assuaged diseases  repelled frauds  rescued cities from destruction  stayed the sun in its course  and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.
— O. Hallesby
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
— Teresa of Avila
True prayer always receives what it asks for-or something better.
— Bryon Edwards
Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.
— William Culbertson
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers  and severely by answering them.
— Richard J. Needham
When the gods wish to punish us  they answer our prayers.
— Oscar Wilde
God alone fully understands what each one of us needs  we make mistakes continually and pray for things which would be harmful to us if we received them. Afterwards we see our mistakes and realize that God is good and wise in not giving us these things  even though we plead ever so earnestly for them.
— O. Hallesby
When the gods are angry with a man  they give him what he asks for.
— Greek proverb
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality  and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the voice of faith.
— William Van Home
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
— Thomas Watson
A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer  and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.
— Vavasor Powell
The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.
— Robert Hall
Prayers are heard in heaven very much in proportion to your faith. Little faith will get very great mercies  but great faith still greater.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith  and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
— George Mueller
Teach me  O God  not to torture myself  not to make a martyr out of myself through stifling reflection  but rather teach me to breathe deeply in faith.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Faith is the fountain of prayer  and prayer should be nothing else but faith exercised.
— Thomas Manton
Without faith it is impossible to please God  for he that cometh to God must believe that He is.
— Bible
When we pray we link ourselves with an inexhaustible motive power.
— Dr. Alexis Carrel
Jesus Christ is a God whom we approach without pride  and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.
— Blaise Pascal
Granting that we are always in the presence of God  yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense  for they  as it were  see that He is looking upon them  while others may go for days on end without even once recollecting that God sees them.
— Teresa of Avila
Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying  but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?
— Lily Tomlin
It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore  but a supreme delight.
— Gordon Lindsay
Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.
— Dean Register
I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed  Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.
— James Russell Lowell
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
— Thomas Watson
Prayer is a shield to the soul  a sacrifice to God  and a scourge for Satan.
— John Bunyan
Prayer is the spiritual gymnasium in which we exercise and practice godliness.
— V. L. Crawford
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
— Edwin Keith
Prayer is the acid test of devotion.
— Samuel Chadwick
Prayer serves as an edge and border to preserve the web of life from unraveling.
— Robert Hall
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing  and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places  till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose."
— A. B. Simpson
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart  and in spirit.
— Alexander Whyte
Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.
— E. W. Kenyon
Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him  whether the heart is full or empty.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Prayer is not an exercise  it is the life.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer is our most formidable weapon  the thing which makes all else we do efficient.
— E. M. Bounds
Prayer is not logical  it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
— Philip James Bailey
Prayer is a cry of distress  a demand for help  a hymn of love.
— Dr. Alexis Carrel
Prayer  in its simplest definition  is merely a wish turned God-ward.
— Phillips Brooks
Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the pillow of religion.
— Arab proverb
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty  not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
— Oswald Chambers
Prayer is a condition of mind  an attitude of heart  which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking  in sighing or in audible words.
— O. Hallesby
Prayer is an all-efficient panoply  a treasure undiminished  a mine which is never exhausted  a sky unobscured by clouds  a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root  the fountain  the mother of a thousand blessings.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Some pray to marry the man they love  my prayer will somewhat vary  I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.
— Rose Pastor Stokes
The prayers of the Christian are secret  but their effect cannot be hidden.
— Howard Chandler Robbins
Man is the only creature which rises by bowing  for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.
— Anonymous
Lord  till I reach that blissful shore  No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.
— Charlotte Elliott
Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.
— Dick Eastman
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
— Andre Gide
Our rages  daughters of despair  creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
— Georges Bernanos
Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says  "I care."
— Dick Eastman
To pray together  in whatever tongue or ritual  is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
— Madame de Stael
The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.
— George E. Rees
We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.
— Austin Phelps
The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.
— John Newton
If we do not love one another  we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
— Dwight L. Moody
Keep us  Lord  so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
— John Donne
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
— Malcolm Boyd
I am used to praying when I am alone  thank God. But when I come together with other people  when I need more than ever to pray  I still cannot get used to it.
— Leo Tolstoy
Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.
— Anonymous
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays  because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land  or by water.
— Jonathan Swift
Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.
— Rudolph Steiner
I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.
— Thomas Lye
Restraining prayer  we cease to fight  Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright  And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
— William Cowper
God dwells where we let God in.
— Menachem Mendel
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
At church  with meek and unaffected grace  His looks adorn'd the venerable place  Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway  And fools who came to scoff  remain'd to pray.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The wings of prayer carry high and far.
— Anonymous
In the calm of sweet communion Let thy daily work be done  In the peace of soul-outpouring Care be banished  patience won  And if earth with its enchantments Seek thy spirit to enthrall  Ere thou listen  ere thou answer  Turn to Jesus  tell Him all.
— G. M. Taylor
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.
— John Masefield
Turn your doubts to question  turn your question to prayers  turn your prayers to God.
— Mark R. Litteton
Prayer  like radium  is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
— Dr. Alexis Carrel
Whatever you do in revenge against your brother will appear all at once in your heart at the time of payer.
— The Desert Fathers
Never say you will pray about a thing  pray about it.
— Oswald Chambers
Doubt not but God who sits on high  Thy secret prayers can hear  When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
— Anonymous