John Mott Quotes

When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

...the power of prayer can never be overrated. They who cannot serve God by preaching need not regret. If a man can but pray he can do anything. He who knows how to overcome with God in prayer has Heaven and earth at his disposal.

Prayer is the greatest force that we can wield. It is the greatest talent which God has granted us. He has given it to every Christian.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

No problem is too small for His attention nor so large that He cannot answer the prayer of faith. Prayer surely is the passport to spiritual power.

Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

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.

Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous.

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

If added power attends the united prayer of two or three, what mighty triumphs there will be when hundreds of thousands of consistent members of the Church are with one accord day by day making intercession for the extension of Christ's Kingdom.

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.