Dwight L. Moody Prayer Quotations

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.

I'd rather be able to pray than to be a great preacher; Jesus Christ never taught his disciples how to preach, but only how to pray.

Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.

Every one of our children will be brought into the ark, if we pray and work earnestly for them.

If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.

In our prayers, we talk to God, in our Bible study, God talks to us, and we had better let God do most of the talking.

If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

We ought to see the face of God every morning before we see the face of man.

We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.

Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.

How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.

The Christian on his knees sees more than the philosopher on tiptoe. God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.

A man who prays much in private will make short prayers in public.

Let us pray, and as we pray, let us make room for Jesus in our hearts.

There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.

How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah's prayer and those of others could not be heard there. Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.