Prayerful Dedication Quotes

Jesus’ example of fidelity to prayer challenges us to examine the time and effort we devote to our own prayer. While prayer is a gift of God, it is also an art learned through constant practice. Jesus teaches us to pray constantly, but also to bear witness before others of the beauty of prayer, self-surrender and complete openness to God.

God, I pray light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn up for thee.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

I promise you the Lord will bless you in your efforts, for this is His work, and He will guide your prayerful efforts to bring the ordinances and covenants to your ancestors....you can make a powerful contribution. Begin now. I promise you that the Lord will help you find a way. And it will make you feel wonderful.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

What the Church needs to-day 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.

Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.

The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.