Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
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.
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.
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.
The prayers of the Christian are secret, but their effect cannot be hidden.
Man is the only creature which rises by bowing, for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.
Lord, till I reach that blissful shore, No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.
Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden.
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.
Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says, "I care."
To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.
We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.
The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.
If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
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.
