Prayer Quotes

As we collect prayer quotes, we will put them on this page. There are times when you are giving a talk on prayer, or when you want to write on this topic, that you would like to include some quotes on prayer. Other times you may be trying to remember what so and so wrote about prayer. You may find it here.

"The greatest thing anyone can do for God and for man is to pray. 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 abut prayer: But I mean these people who take the time and pray. . . It is wholly a secret service."

-S. D. Gordon

"Now prayer is this: A man... insistently claiming that Satan shall yield before Jesus' victory, step by step, life after life."

- S. D. Gordon

"The primary office of prayer is communion with God. To have Him is to have all. . . to aim at anything less than God Himself is to miss te mark."

- F. J. Huegel

"Prayer on any other basis than Calvary is a Satanic counterfeit."

-F. J. Huegel

"To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs."

- O Hallsby

"No great spiritual awakening has begun anywhere in the world apart from united prayer. . . ."

J. Edwin Orr

A sinner's cry for mercy puts that one on "praying ground."

Jesus found that it was occasionally necessary to sacrifice sleep in order to hae more time for prayer. If Jesus felte the need of special and regular prayer times, I certainly don't need them less.

There is not a single instance in God's Word of an endorsement of prayer to the deceased, nor to living saints.

"... In each of the Persons (of the Trinity) the whole essence of God is to be found. Since prayer to God is always proper, any of the Persons may be addressed in prayer."

- Wayne R. Spear