Faith Quotes

"There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer."

- D.A.T. Pierson

"The great people of the earth today are the people who pray, (not) those who talk about prayer."

- S.D.Gordon

"Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving him and focusing our attention on him are the most important."

- Charles Stanley

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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

"History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer."

- Edwin Orr

"All I know is that when I pray, coincidences happen; and when I don't pray, they don't happen."

- Dan Hayes

"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

"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

"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

"Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, he isn't ever 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

"Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!"

- Andrew Murray

"The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts."

- Richard Alleine

"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things ‘above all that we ask or think.’"

- Andrew Murray

"If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him."

- Dr. R. A. Torrey

"What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul."

- Samuel Chadwick

"Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality…plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way…Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Where there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer."

- Andrew Murray