Prayer Verses & Quotes

“I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior. He desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all.” [1]

“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.” [2]

“What the Church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use — men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. 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.” [3]

“When man works man works, but when man prays, God works.” [4]

“Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.” [5]

[1] 1 Timothy 2:1-5
[2] Richard C. Trench
[3] E.M. Bounds
[4] Hans Von Staden
[5] Dwight L. Moody