Prayer Quotes

Prayer is powerful, but if our prayers are aimless, meaningless, and mingled with doubt, they will be of little hope to us.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer is more than a wish, it is the voice of faith directed to God.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

~ Billy Graham

[Jesus] prayed briefly when He was in a crowd; He prayed a little longer when He was with His disciples; and He prayed all night when He was alone. Today, many in the ministry tend to reverse that process.

~ Billy Graham

If all we're doing is flinging words and emotions in all directions without any real consideration for the specific ways the enemy is targeting us and the promises of God that apply to us, we're mostly just wasting our time.

~ Priscilla Shirer

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God’s side.

~ Billy Graham

If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits.

~ Billy Graham

As we practice implementing this incredible power tool He's placed in our hands, He divinely positions us - even a little life like ours - in His grand purpose for the ages. Through the connective tissue of prayer, He cracks open the door that makes us at least a small part of how these massive plans of His are translated into the lives of people we know. Including ours.

~ Priscilla Shirer

Have you ever said, “Well, all we can do now is pray”? . . . When we come to the end of ourselves, we come to the beginning of God.

~ Billy Graham

I realize more than ever that this ministry has been a team effort. Without the help of our prayer partners, our financial supporters, our staff, and our board of directors—this ministry and all of our dreams to spread the Good News of God’s love throughout the world would not have been possible.

~ Billy Graham

No matter where we are, God is as close as a prayer. He is our support and our strength. He will help us make our way up again from whatever depths we have fallen.

~ Billy Graham

The most eloquent prayer is often prayed through hands that heal and bless.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God’s Spirit prepares the way.

~ Billy Graham

When we know Him, we can be sure God hears our prayers.

~ Billy Graham

When troubles come may prayer be your automatic response.

~ Billy Graham

We were created to live a life of prayer.

~ Billy Graham

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

~ Billy Graham

Someone has said, “Prayer is the highest use to which speech can be put.

~ Billy Graham

I firmly believe God continues to answer the prayers of His people even after He has taken them to heaven. Never forget that God isn’t bound by time the way we are. We see only the present moment, God sees everything. We see only part of what He is doing, He sees it all.

~ Billy Graham

Prayer is key to our effort to communicate the Gospel and win men and women to Christ.

~ Billy Graham

Why, 'inspire?' As y'all can see I love things with the word, 'inspire!' Well, let me remind you that all inspiration comes from God, and my prayer, is that He will lead me, to inspire you to find the true inspiration that He will freely give to you!

~ Mary Kate

The one who expects God to do as he asks Him must on his part do whatever God bids him.

~ R.a. Torrey

The Lord weighs the motive of every heart.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter how outlandishly audacious your prayers might sound in your own ears, they are nothing in light of God's willingness and ability to answer.

~ Leslie Ludy

What if the thing that God wants us to receive most in our conversations with Him is not some alternate reality, but an assurance of a divine presence within, and a divine perspective on, our current reality – a presence and perspective that will ultimately change our response to our circumstances and lead us to be responsible within those circumstances? So prayer doesn’t just become some ‘spiritual exercise’ in order to exert our authority over the external world, it becomes a spiritually-physical relationship with a greater authority that brings transformation internally, leading to responsibility externally.

~ Tristan Sherwin

May your home always be filled with love, laughter and happiness.

~ Debasish Mridha

May the angels protect you from any harm.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The author holds up for inspection the fallacy of The Closed-Door Method wherein Christ's followers assume that if a decision is difficult to make it is not His will for us to make it because He would obviously not want us to do anything difficult.

~ David Platt

Every prayer is a wish fulfilled in due time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't believe there is such a thing as unanswered prayer. There is misguided prayers, selfish prayers, and doubting prayers, but true prayer doesn't go unanswered - it is merely abandoned prematurely due to lack of persistence and faithful endurance.

~ Leslie Ludy

Prayer is not supposed to be all we do - it's just supposed to undergird all we do. Prayer is not supposed to be just the first thing we do, but the first, second, fourth, seventh, and final thing we do in each circumstance.

~ Leslie Ludy

Prayer puts God in the position He deserves - that of King, Governor, Benign Controller, Possessor, Lord, and Master.

~ Leslie Ludy

Accustomed to motion, he was forced to be still.

~ H.w. Brands

I wonder if God hears prayers if the only time you make them is when you’re in trouble.

~ Dan Groat

Prayer is not first and foremost talking to God, it's first and foremost listening to God.

~ Leslie Ludy

Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one ever bothered to ask!

~ Billy Graham

Many times I have been driven to prayer. When I was in Bible school I didn’t know what to do with my life. I used to walk the streets . . . and pray, sometimes for hours at a time. In His timing, God answered those prayers, and since then prayer has been an essential part of my life.

~ Billy Graham

I have never met anyone who spent time in daily prayer, and in the study of the Word of God, and was strong in faith, who was ever discouraged for very long.

~ Billy Graham

If there are any tears shed in heaven, they will be over the fact that we prayed so little.

~ Billy Graham

In the morning, prayer is the key that opens to usthe treasures of God’s mercies and blessings; in the evening, it is the key that shuts us up under His protection and safeguard.

~ Billy Graham