50 Quotes on Prayer – culled from The Power Bible CD

1. Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. -Mueller
2. The most important thing in any prayer is not what we say to God, but what God says to us. We are apt to pray and then hurry away without giving God a chance to answer. -North Carolina Christian Advocate
3. Prayer is the chief agency and activity whereby men align themselves with God's purpose. Prayer does not consist in battering the walls of heaven for personal benefits or the success of our plans. Rather it is the committing of ourselves for the carrying out of His purposes. It is a telephone call to headquarters for orders. It is not bending God's will to ours, but our will to God's. In prayer, we tap vast reservoirs of spiritual power whereby God can find fuller entrance into the hearts of men. -Oldham
4. Sometimes . . . God answers our prayers in the way our parents do, who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while." -Pearson
5. Sometimes God delays the answer to our prayer in final form until we have time to build up the strength, accumulate the knowledge, or fashion the character that would make it possible for Him to say "yes" to what we ask. -Pearson
6. We must remember that "No" can be an answer to prayer. -Pinson
7. If Christians spent as much time praying as they do grumbling, they would soon have nothing to grumble about. -Anonymous
   
   
8. I would rather be the Master of the Art of Prayer than MA of both Oxford and Cambridge. He who knows how to pray has his hand on the leverage that moves the universe. -Spurgeon
9. Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer. -Ballou
10. A prayer, in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward. -Brooks
11. When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words than thy words without heart. -Bunyan
12. I used to pray that God would do this or that. Now I pray that God will make His will known to me. -Chiang Kai-shek
13. Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. -Clarke
14. And Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon his knees. -Cowper
15. No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. -Emerson
16. Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God. -Emerson
17. Prayer is the soul getting into contact with the God in whom it believes. -Fosdick
18. God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. -Fosdick
19. He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying. -St. Francis of de Sales
20. Work as if you were to live 100 years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow. -Franklin
21. So a good prayer, though often used, is still fresh and fair in the ears and eyes of Heaven. -Fuller
22. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. -Fuller
23. Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends. -Hopkins
24. Prayer is the voice of faith. -Horne
25. Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. -Hugo
26. To saints their very slumber is a prayer. -St. Jerome
27. Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God. -Keith
28. There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him. -Law 
29. We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another. -Law
30. Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me. -Moody
31. Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness. -More
32. Prayer is the Godward reach of a man's soul. -Radcliffe
33. The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer. -Rees
34. Prayer is a means of adding power to the strength we already possess. Sometimes we know what is right, but we lack the will power to do it. -Stock
35. Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. -Spellman
36. If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say it is in that one word-prayer. -Spurgeon
37. My own soul's conviction is that prayer is the grandest power in the entire universe, that it has a more omnipotent force than electricity, attraction, gravitation, or any other of those other secret forces which men have called by mane, but which they do not understand. -Spurgeon
38. God the Holy Spirit writes our prayers, God the Son presents our prayers and God the Father accepts our prayers. And with the whole Trinity to help us in it, what cannot prayer perform. -Spurgeon
39. All our strength lies in prayer! -Spurgeon
40. I have seen enough in my own lifetime to fill a volume concerning the goodness of the Lord in answer to his children's prayers. -Spurgeon
41. Where God leads you to pray, he means you to receive. -Spurgeon
42. The Lord does not play at promising. Jesus did not sport at confirming the word by his blood, and we must not make a jest of prayer by going about it in a listless, unexpecting spirit. -Spurgeon
43. Neglect of private prayer is the locust that devours the strength of the church. -Spurgeon
44. Prayer is the breath of faith. Prayer meetings are the lungs of the church. -Spurgeon
45. To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that men can contract in this life. -Stael
46. If Christ Himself needed to retire from time to time to the mountain-top to pray, lesser men need not be ashamed to acknowledge that necessity. -Streeter
47. Prayer is the ascent of the mind to God. -Taylor
48. Prayer is the world in tune. –Vaughn
49. To me it is a boundless solace that I live in the prayers of thousands. We can do better without the voice that preaches than without the heart that prays. The petitions of our bedridden sisters are the wealth of the church. –Spurgeon
50. Nothing is so beautiful as a child going to sleep while he is saying his prayers. -Peguy