Prayer Quotes to Encourage You!

Compiled by Rod Dempsey:

1. Nothing of eternal significance ever happens apart from prayer. – Jerry Falwell
2. All of our failures are prayer failures. Jerry Falwell
3. The size of your God, determines the size of your prayer request. The size of your prayer request, determines the size of your answers.- Jerry Falwell.
4. Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer. – E. M. Bounds
5. Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.  ~ Richard Baxter, 1615 – 1691
6. Groaning’s which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused. ~ Spurgeon
7. Prayer in private results in boldness  in public. -Edwin Louis Cole
8. If your day is hemmed in with prayer, it is less likely to come unraveled. Annon
9. 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
10. 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
11. It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone.  ~ Hudson Taylor
12. Before we can pray, “Lord, Thy Kingdom come,” we must be willing to pray, “My Kingdom go.”  ~Alan Redpath
13. I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it. – John Wesley
14. Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God’s voice is its most essential part.  Listening to God’s voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.  ~ Andrew Murray
15. Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation and for me the most important part is listening to God’s replies.  ~ Frank C. Laubach
16. The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God. -Charles Bent
17. Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers. ~ J. Sidlow Baxter
18. The sovereign cure for worry is prayer. -William James
19. Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God’s Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again. – William Gurnall…
20. Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.” –E. Stanley Jones
21. Those who do not believe do not pray. This is a good functional definition of faith. Faith prays… unbelief does not. –John A. Hardon
22. If you can’t pray a door open, don’t pry it open.– Lyell Rader
23. Prayer does not fit us for the greater work, prayer is the greater work. –Oswald Chambers
24. When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busy-ness takes over. -George Carey
25. Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure – DL Moody