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When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.
Sep 17, 2025
All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.
This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense.
A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men.
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan.
We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.
He prayeth best who loveth best.
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God.
Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
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.
Now let me burn out for God.
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil
The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.
The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
God speaks in the silence of the heart.
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
God shapes the world by prayer.
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
Let me burn out for God. After all, whatever God may appoint, prayer is the great thing. Oh, that I might be a man of prayer!
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.
God will do nothing but in answer to prayer.
Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.
The Church has not yet touched the fringe of the possibilities of intercessory prayer. Her largest victories will be witnessed when individual Christians everywhere come to recognize their priesthood unto God and day by day give themselves unto prayer.
Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
God's answers are wiser than our prayers.
Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.
Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D. L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher. Time and time again, he was confronted by obstacles that seemed insurmountable, but he always knew the way to overcome all difficulties. He knew the way to bring to pass anything that needed to be brought to pass. He knew and believed in the deepest depths of his soul that nothing was too hard for the Lord, and that prayer could do anything that God could do.
With God, all things are possible.
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.