Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

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.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

God hears a mother's prayer.

Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

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.

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.

Our God listens to us. Our God is a living God. He's not a block of wood you made up that's not going to answer you. My God listens to me. He answers me.

God has never failed. I can sit here and say this. There is not anything in my life that I've prayed according to the word of God and I've not seen God answer.

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

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.

Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns.

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.

Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers...can move the very heart of God who created the universe?

The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

Prayer is the difference between the best we can do and the best God can do.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

Prayer flies where the eagle never flew.