Walter Martin Quotes

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

I began to pray those same fervent prayers, lying in bed at night, hoping to see a scroll unrolled from the ceiling with a message from God just for me.

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is.

St. Thomas is right. The essential prayer is the prayer of petition.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

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.

O Lord have mercy on me, to God I commend my soul.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

God hears a mother's prayer.

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

It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

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