Quotes on prayer

We waste most of our time trying to get God to do something He has already done—or praying for God to do something He told us to do. --Jacquelyn K. Heasley

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men…Men of prayer." --E. M. Bounds

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. --Leonard Ravenhill

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.~ Charles Stanley

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. ~Guy H. King

We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart. ~Margaret Gibb

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness." Martin Luther.

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

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy King dom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go." ~Alan Redpath

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer."

What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use— men of prayer, men mighty in prayer" E.M. Bounds

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work." Oswald Chambers.

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

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness."

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer."F.B. Meyer

Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man."Francis J. Spellman

God shapes the world by prayer. The prayers of God’s saints are the capitol stock of heaven by which God carries on His great work upon the earth.E.M. Bounds