Faith Quotes

"God cannot help hearing the prayer of an obedient child."

- E.M. Bounds

"PRAYER, praise and thanksgiving all go in company."

- E.M. Bounds

"To see God, to know God, and to live for God-these form the objective of all true praying."

- E.M. Bounds

"Pray without ceasing; continue in prayer; continuing instant in prayer; in everything by prayer, let your request be made known unto God; pray always, pray and not faint; men should pray everywhere; praying always, with all prayer and supplication."

- E.M. Bounds

"He who would pray, must obey. He who would get anything out of his prayers, must be in perfect harmony with God. Prayer puts into those who sincerely pray a spirit of obedience, for the spirit of disobedience is not of God and belongs not to God's praying hosts."

- E.M. Bounds

"An obedient life is a great help to prayer. In fact, an obedient life is a necessity to prayer, to the sort which accomplishes things. The absence of an obedient life makes prayer an empty performance, a mere misnomer. A penitent sinner seeks pardon and salvation and has an answer to his prayers even with a life stained and debauched with sin. But God's royal intercessors come before him with royal lives. Holy living promotes holy praying. God's intercessors "lift up holy hands," the symbols of righteous, obedient lives."

- E.M. Bounds

"Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer."

- E.M. Bounds

"Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God’s work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls."

- E.M. Bounds

"Wise is he in the day of trouble who knows his true source of strength and who fails not to pray."

- E.M. Bounds

"God’s acquaintance is not made hurriedly."

- E.M. Bounds

"God does not bestow His gifts on the casual of hasty comers and goers. Much with God alone is the secret of knowing Him and of influence with Him."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance."

- E.M. Bounds

"Life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held."

- E.M. Bounds

"God does nothing except in response to believing prayer."

- John Wesley

"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Prayer is man's greatest power!"

- W. Clement Stone

"Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth."

- Philip James Bailey

"I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself."

- Harold E. Hughes

"In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer."

- Monica Johnson

"The proof is in the pudding. If you put your mind and hard work and prayer into what you do, it will happen."

- Latto

"All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God."

- Louis Zamperini

"It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer."

- George Müller

"'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song."

- Luanne Rice

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

- Thomas Fuller

"Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed."

- Ramana Maharshi

"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."

- Cokie Roberts

"About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation."

- Will Rogers