Powerful Prayer Quotes:

Selfishness is never so exquisitely selfish as when it is on its knees. ... Self turns what would otherwise be a pure and powerful prayer into a weak and ineffective one.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Selfish, Powerful Prayer

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

- F.B. Meyer

topic: Prayer, Tragedy, Life Is, Inspirational Prayer, Unanswered

The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayer-less religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

- Samuel Chadwick

topic: Christian, Prayer, Laughing, Our Prayers, Christian Prayer

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Inspirational, Praying, Lord, Prayer Changes Things, I Pray

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

- Oswald Chambers

source: Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

topic: Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational, Praying To God, I Pray

Satan laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray.

- Samuel Chadwick

topic: Laughing, Toil, Praying, Our Prayers, Christian Prayer

I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Prayer, Men, Praying, Missions And Prayer, Christian Prayer

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Christian, Prayer, Godly, I Pray, God Help Me

If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

topic: Morning, Effort, Lasts, Prayer Changes Things, Last Place

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

- Soren Kierkegaard

topic: God, Faith, Nature, Positive Change, Inspirational Prayer

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

- Martin Luther

source: Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.155

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Believe, Intercessory Prayer, Powerful Prayer

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

- John Bunyan

topic: Prayer, Heart, Worship, Prayer Changes Things, Inspirational Prayer

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

- William Law

source: William LAW (Author of “A Serious Call, ” etc.) (1759). “A practical treatise upon Christian perfection ... The fifth edition”, p.403

topic: Christian, Prayer, Happy Life, Prayer Changes Things, Christian Prayer

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

- Adam Clarke

source: Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.252

topic: Prayer, Heart, Christian Inspirational, Praying To God, I Pray

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

- Corrie Ten Boom

topic: Inspirational, Prayer, Burden, Praying To God, I Pray

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

- J. Sidlow Baxter

source: "The Tremendous Power of Prayer". Book by Bob Kelly and Charlie Jones, p. 46, 2000.

topic: Prayer, Men, Messages, Inspirational Prayer, Thoughts And Prayers

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.

- Francis of Assisi

source: The Origin of the Peace Prayer of St. Francis, www.franciscan-archive.org.

topic: Love, Peace, Hatred, Love And Hate, Joy God

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

source: Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL

topic: Prayer, Men, Done, Prayer Changes Things, Seeking God

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

- Martin Luther

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Believe, Powerful Prayer

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

- Eckhart Tolle

topic: Prayer, Believe, Our Prayers, God Is With You, Faith In Love

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

- Edward McKendree Bounds

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Littles, Coldness, Powerful Prayer

The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.

- Meister Eckhart

source: Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

topic: Powerful, Prayer, Self, Powerful Prayer

There is no such thing as a powerful prayer; we only have powerful people praying to a powerful God.

- Chris Oyakhilome

topic: Prayer, Powerful, People, Powerful God, Powerful Prayer

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

- Pope Francis

topic: Powerful, Prayer, Giving, Powerful Prayer

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

- Jane Frances de Chantal

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Suffering, Powerful Prayer

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

- Thomas Keating

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Helping, Powerful Prayer, Human Language

To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.100, Random House

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Healing, Universal Love, Love Never Fails

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

- Dennis Kucinich

source: "This Conversation With You is a Meditation". Interview with Steven Waldman, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Thinking, Powerful Prayer

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

- Iyanla Vanzant

topic: Powerful, Prayer, Children, Powerful Prayer

Just a thank you is a mighty powerful prayer. Says it all.

- Rosanne Cash

topic: Thank You, Thankful, Gratitude, Powerful Prayer