The greatest leaders in history are not those who have the highest IQ or the biggest army. They are the ones who knows how to pray. For most people, prayer is the last option. For great leaders, prayer is the first solution.

I collected quotes on prayer with the hope that these thoughts will educate and inspire you. Again, I am inviting you to share with me your own quotes. You can also share these quotes to your friends; click the ShareThis icon at the bottom of this page.

To pray is to change.  Prayer is the central avenue God uses to transform us.  If we are unwilling to change, we will abandon prayer as a noticeable characteristic of our lives. The more we pray, the more we come to heartbeat of God.  Prayer starts the communication process between ourselves and God.  All the options of life fall before us.  At that point we will either forsake our prayer life and cease to grow, or we will pursue our prayer life and let Him change us.

Either option is painful. To not grow in His likeness is to not enjoy his fulness.  When this happens, a haunting voice continues to ask, ‘What could I have become in him if I would have been a man of prayer?’  To grow in His likeness is to enjoy His fullness.  When this happens, the priorities of the world begin to fade away.”
~ Richard Foster

I shall see no hope until the individual members of the church are praying for revival, perhaps meeting in one anothers’ homes, meeting in groups amongst friends, meeting together in churches, meeting anywhere you like, and praying with urgency and concentration for a shedding forth of the power of God….  There is no hope until we do.
~ D.D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

In the house of God there is never-ending festival; the angel choir makes eternal holiday; the presence of God’s face gives joy that never fails. And from that everlasting, perpetual festivity there sounds in the ears of the heart a strain, melodious, mysterious, sweet-provided the world does not drown it.
~ St. Augustine from Patrologia

Worshipping God is the great essential of fitness.  If you have not been worshipping…when you get to work you  will not only be useless yourself, but a tremendous hindrance to those who are associated with you.
~ Oswald Chambers

“The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.”
~ E.M. Bounds

“It is necessary to iterate and reiterate that prayer, as a mere habit, as a performance gone through by routine or in a professional way, is a dead and rotten thing.”
~E.M. Bounds

“Satan trembles when he sees the weakest Christian on his knees.”
~William Cowper

“If the church wants a better pastor, it only needs to pray for the one it has.”

“Seven days without prayer makes one weak.”
~Allen E. Vartlett

“Prayer is the real work, Evangelism is just the mopping up.”

“You may as soon find a living man that does not breath, as a living Christian that does not pray.”
~Matthew Henry

“Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.”       ~John Bunyon

“He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.”       ~William Law

“Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness.”
~Martin Luther.

“There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.”
~Brother Lawrence

When asked how much time he spent in prayer, George Muller’s reply was, “Hours every day. But I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk and when I lie down and when I arise. And the answers are always coming.”

“The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying.  He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but he trembles when we pray.”
~Samuel Chadwick

Prayer lays hold of  God’s plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. (!!!!!)  Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit’s prayer.
~ Elisabeth Elliot

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
~ Corrie Ten Boom

Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
~ Benjamin Franklin

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

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
~ Spurgeon

God warms his hands at man’s heart when he prays.
~ John Masefield

If your day is hemmed in with prayer, it is less likely to come unraveled.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message….
~ Oswald Chambers

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

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

Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.
~ David Bryant

In worship, God imparts himself to us.
~ C.S.Lewis

It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone.
~ Hudson Taylor

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.
~ D.A.T. Pierson

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other.  Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
~ Oswald Chambers

The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
~ Charles Stanley

On silence:
“Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness.  He doesn’t want us to do all the talking.  As Is. 30:15 says “In quiet and confidence will be your strength.”
~ Charles Stanley

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

God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
~ Oswald Chambers

To desire revival…and at the same time to neglect(personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another.
~ A.W. Tozer

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.
~ Anselm of Canterbury

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God’s responses.
~ Charles Stanley

Too many women have too much leisure time for their own good.  They have time for criticism, gossip, faultfinding, and complaining.  They have time for idle games and lay too much attention to things of the flesh.  There are other women who have too little time for the enduring things of life.  They are too busy flitting about doing this and that.  They have great activity and much doing, but they lack time for building Christian characters.  Both kinds of women — the too-idle and the too-busy need to take time for meditation and quiet repose in prayer to God.  They need time to cultivate their souls that in turn they may cultivate their children’s lives.
~ Billy Graham

If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master’s presence.  And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in our Lord’s presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour will be very well employed.
~ St.Francis de Sales

MAHATMA GANDHI, one of the busiest and most famous men in the world, used to set aside Monday as a Day of Silence.  He needed the stillness, he said, in order to rest his vocal cords and to promote inner harmony in his soul amid the turmoil of life around him.  I wonder what power would be released if all Christians devoted one day a week to listening to the voice of God to discern His coded message for our lives..  The Counsellor can only lead us if we receive His voice.
~ Paul Brand in “In His Image” page 211

I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord.  The first thing to be concerned about was not, how I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished….  I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation of it.
~ George Mueller of Bristol

“We are either in the process of resisting God’s truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.”
~ Charles Stanley

Yieldedness is vital in listening to what He has to say.
~ Charles Stanley

The great people of the earth today are the people who pray, (not) those who talk about prayer…but I mean those who take time and pray.
~ S.D.Gordon

All vital praying makes a drain on a man’s vitality.  True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.
~ J.H. Jowett

Work, work, from morning until late at night.  In fact, I have so much to do that I shall have to spend the first three hours in prayer.
~ Martin Luther

To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.
~ Billy Graham

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
~ Oswald Chambers

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

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
~ Charles Stanley

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.
~ Charles Stanley

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

Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural.
~ Oswald Chambers

The supreme thing is worship.  The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King…the fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.
~ Campbell Morgan

I did not see that it is the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men….
~ C.S. Lewis

There must be the inward worship within the shrine if there is to be outward service.
~ MacLaren

If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus….  He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.
~ A.W. Tozer

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other.  Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.
~ Oswald Chambers

Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that He can do something supernatural and divine.
~ Andrew Murray

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won’t want to face God in that area of our lives.
~ Charles Stanley

God shapes the world by prayer.  The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil….
~ E.M.Bounds

History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
~ Edwin Orr

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray.  It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing.  The great people of the earth today are the people who pray.  I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time to pray.
~ S.D. Gordon

The prayer power has never been tried to its full capacity…if we want to see might wonders of divine power and grace wrought in the place of weakness, failure and disappointment, let us answer God’s standing challenge, “Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not.
~ J. Hudson Taylor

All I know is that when I pray, coincidences happen; and when I don’t pray, they don’t happen.
~ Dan Hayes
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There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes
Of blinded men to instant, perfect sight;
There is a place where thou canst say, “Arise”
To dying captives, bound in chains of night;
There is a place where thou canst reach the store
Of hoarded gold and free it for the Lord;
There is a place–upon some distant shore–
Where thou canst send the worker and the Word.
Where is that secret place–dost thou ask, “Where?”
O soul, it is the secret place of prayer!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission.  It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.
~ David Bryant

God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope, and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
~ Richard Cecil

I have lived to thank God that not all my prayers have been answered.
~ Jean Ingelow

The amount of time we spend with Jesus – meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face – establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
~ Charles Stanley

I’m convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit.  Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that’s not the issue.  The issue is how fast his spirit is going.  To slow it down takes a period of time.
~ Charles Stanley

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
~ Edwin Keith

To pray well is the better half of study.
~ Martin Luther

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.
~ Hannah More

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.
~ Robert McCheyne

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn’t every going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
~ Charles Stanley

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
~ Charles Stanley

loving, divine arms around you.
~ Charles Stanley

“The Christian needs to be alone during a definite period of each day for meditation on scripture…and for prayer…even during times of spiritual dryness and apathy.

It matters little what form of prayer we adopt…or how many words we use.  What matters is the faith which lays hold on God, knowing that He knows our needs before we even ask Him.  That is what gives Christian prayer its boundless confidence and its joyous certainty.  We simply make petitions and requests to One who has the heart of a Father.

Of course, God’s will must be the primary object of our prayers… and we must recognize prayer as an instrument of God’s will.  Therefore, we pray that God’s will may be done throughout the world…and in intercessory prayer we bring people… from around the  world…into the presence of God.

Every intercession potentially draws the one for whom it is intended into a life-changing relationship with Christ.  And in intercession I move into the other man’s place.  I inter his life…his guilt and distress.  I am afflicted by his sins and his infirmity.  If…as we pray…we recognize our own responsibility for the world’s guilt and our own guilt in the death of Christ…then we can act upon and affect the lives of men and women throughout the world.”
~ Dietrich Bonhofer

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
~ Charles Stanley

Prayer for Jesus Christ, formed the brackets in which He accomplished His earthly work. It fortified Him with wisdom and power before action occurred, and it renewed, refreshed, and revived Him when His human strength was exhausted.  On the front end, He prayed for fruit, in the middle, He bore fruit.  Afterwards, He thanked God for fruit.
~ Dan Hayes
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Every morning lean thine arms awhile
Upon the window-sill of heaven
And gaze upon thy Lord,
Then, with vision in thy heart,
Turn strong to meet thy day.
~ Thomas Blake
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What can I give Him poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd, I would give Him a lamb,
If I were a wise man, I would do my part,–
But what I can I give Him,
Give my heart.
~ Christina G. Rossetti

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, A shiny sliver out of one hour. I dropped it carelessly. O God! I knew not I held opportunity.
~ Hazel Lee

The greatest gift we can give to others is our prayers. Have you prayed for someone today? Have your prayed for our country today? Let’s pray…

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