Quotes on prayer
To pray is to be identified with God’s will. (Alan Redpath)
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed. (William Gurnall)
Prayer is something more than asking God to run errands for us. (Anon)
Prayer is the key of heaven; faith is the hand that turns it. (Thomas Watson)
Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. (Phillips Brooks)
Prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God and a scourge to Satan. (John Bunyan)
As it is the business of tailors to make clothes and of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray. (Luther)
God does nothing but in answer to prayer. (John Wesley)
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life. (Octavius Winslow)
What a man is alone on his knees before God, that he is, and no more. (McCheyne)
When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for the return of it; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; and so when we sow our prayers into God’s bosom, shall we not look for an answer? (Sibbes)
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. (Isaac Newton)
Christ went more readily to the cross, than we to the throne of grace. (Thomas Watson)
Oh, Prayer, prayer! It brings and keeps God and man together. It raises up man to God, and brings down God to man. (Whitefield)
If your troubles are deep-seated and longstanding, try kneeling.
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. (Richard Sibbes)
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don’t, they don’t. (William Temple)