Powerful Prayer Quotes

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

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.

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

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.

To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

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.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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.