Sunday Prayer Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes after an enjoyable family home evening, during a fervent family prayer, or when our entire family is at the dinner table on Sunday evening eating waffles and engaging in a session of lively, good-matured conversation, I quietly say to myself, 'If heaven is nothing more than this, it will be good enough for me!' — Marlin K. Jensen

There are two ways of opening the eyes of people. The first is by way of preaching the Word of God and the second is prayer — Sunday Adelaja

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves - to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a weekday. Do you think he cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only tones of prayer - and that He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the children as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever rolled up from the 'dim religious light' of some solemn cathedral? — Lewis Carroll

Spending time alone with God gives us victory over the flesh. — Sunday Adelaja

A Prayer does not need to become a ritual. — Sunday Adelaja

My brothers and sisters prayers and faith in God does not negate professionalism and dignity of labour. — Sunday Adelaja

Prayer is not supposed to be magical. — Sunday Adelaja

Asking is the first level of prayer. — Sunday Adelaja

Don't pray for the sake of prayer, pray only because you want to be God — Sunday Adelaja

We mustn't just simply pray, but rather ask God about His desires and plans. This is the prayer of enquiry — Sunday Adelaja

Intercession is prayer we pray not for ourselves, but for others - for country government, or any other person — Sunday Adelaja

You can tell how popular a church is by who comes on Sunday morning. You can tell how popular the pastor or evangelist is by who comes on Sunday night. But you can tell how popular Jesus is by who comes to the prayer meeting. — Jim Cymbala

The sanctity of prayer is needed to impregnate business. We need the spirit of Sunday carried over to Monday and continued until Saturday. But this cannot be done by prayerless men, but by men of prayer. — Edward McKendree Bounds

I'm happy to see you've found a church home, Abby," her father said piously. For years he had led the prayer each Sunday at the First Methodist Church in Danesboro, and the other six days he had tirelessly practiced greed and manipulation. He had also steadily but discreetly pursued whiskey and women. An — John Grisham

Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them today, the children of our Sunday-schools, of our churches, of the streets. Here they are; they wait Thy benediction. The prayer of Jacob for his sons shall be my prayer while I live, and when I die: The angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads. — Thomas De Witt Talmage

Let us never be afraid to be still before God; we shall then carry that stillness into our work; and when we go to church on Sunday, or to the prayer-meeting on week-days, it will be with the one desire that nothing may stand betwixt us and God, and that we may never be so occupied with hearing and listening as to forget the presence of God. — Andrew Murray

Come to the Lord with boldness and talk to Him in prayer — Sunday Adelaja

In order to know how to pray for people, we have first to determine: Whether, they are saved or not. — Sunday Adelaja

Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap. — Theodore Parker

The only way you can pray with absolute faith is to be confident that your prayers are in line with the revealed will of God, His Word. — Sunday Adelaja

To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality? — Olive Schreiner

Prayer has to be fervent, intensive, passionate and from the heart. — Sunday Adelaja

The third direction of prayer is prayer against Satan, devils and demons — Sunday Adelaja

There is also a third blessing that comes from spending time alone with God. When we spend time alone with Him, this releases all God's potential, His power, grace and anointing, all of which are so essential for doing work for the Kingdom of God. — Sunday Adelaja

Anointing does not come without prayer. The closer you are to Jesus in prayer, in the Word and in fellowship with Him, the greater His character, His anointing and His abilities will be manifested in you — Sunday Adelaja

The power of your prayer lies in your knowing that God is there right beside you. — Sunday Adelaja

God is going to lift you up higher, day by day and from prayer to prayer. — Sunday Adelaja

Prayer is a conversation with the Father you trust. — Sunday Adelaja

Prayer is supposed to be interaction with God. — Sunday Adelaja

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. — Maya Angelou

Prayer without an active position is powerless to change anything — Sunday Adelaja

Organize your life the way God wants it to be. When you pray, ask God for counsel on matters and you will get the wisest advice directly from heaven — Sunday Adelaja

The prayer of a righteous man avails much — Sunday Adelaja

To be protected at all times, you have to pray systematically. If your prayer time is a minimum an hour a day, keep to it; the main thing is not to go below this mark. — Sunday Adelaja

I had heard the same carols all my life, seen the same little play, with the same mistakes in grammar. The minister had offered the same prayer as always, Christmas or Sunday. The same people wore the same old clothes and sat in the same places. Next year it would be the same, and the year after that, the same again. Vivian said things were changing. But where were they changing? — Ernest J. Gaines

We are the only people who may know the will of God for the city we live in. God expects us to become intercessors for our countries — Sunday Adelaja

Learn how to pray with all your heart, applying all your energy to concentrate on one specific goal. — Sunday Adelaja

The second level of prayer is seeking. — Sunday Adelaja

Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night. — Pico Iyer

As a boy I heard this story in church.
A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known."
As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself."
How true of us. — Richard Paul Evans

We could never predict what moment in the service would trigger a full-blown crisis of faith. Once, it was the kids' choir singing "Nothing but the Blood" during special music.
"Surely I'm not the only one who thinks it's creepy to hear all those little voices singing about getting washed in the flow of someone's blood," I muttered as Dan and I escaped out the double doors.
Another time it was a prayer about God granting our troops victory over their enemies as they served him in Iraq.
"Don't you think the Iraqis are just as convinced God is on their side?" I whispered.
Sometimes it was just the way people chatted in the fellowship hall about "those liberals," as if feminists or Democrats or Methodists couldn't possibly be in their midst.
Often it was the assumption that women were unfit to speak from the pulpit or pass the collection plate on Sunday mornings, but were welcome to serve the men their key lime pie at the church picnic. — Rachel Held Evans

Prayer is the breath of our spirit-man — Sunday Adelaja

Do not permit social, public or human obligations to rob you of your prayer life. — Sunday Adelaja

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts. — Billy Sunday

If you really wish to follow Christ, if you want your love for him to grow and last, then you must be faithful to prayer. It is the key to the vitality of your life in Christ. Without prayer, your faith and love will die. If you are constant in daily prayer and in the Sunday celebration of Mass, your love for Jesus will increase. And your heart will know deep joy and peace, such as the world could never give. — Pope John Paul II

Your power depends on how much time you spend fellowshipping with God. — Sunday Adelaja

Prayer gives you a supernatural boldness that you cannot get by any other means — Sunday Adelaja

Prayer is pouring your heart to the one you love. — Sunday Adelaja

We have to bring in captivity every high thing in people's mind. — Sunday Adelaja

The amount of words spoken does not determine the quality of the prayer — Sunday Adelaja

If you notice that devil hinder your work or demons disturb your family etc., then address them and cast them out of your circumstances — Sunday Adelaja

Every stronghold the devil builds in the minds of people through thoughts should be pulled down in prayer — Sunday Adelaja

I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day. — Wilkie Collins

But the truth is, I can't sip from an hour-long church service on Sunday morning or dash off a hasty prayer or gulp down a daily Bible verse and expect them to sustain me any more than I can expect a glass of water to last for a week. — Lynn Austin

Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached ... let us not rush into God's presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise. — J.C. Ryle

I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays. — J.C. Ryle

Prayer is supposed to be a fellowship. — Sunday Adelaja

There is time for you to pray, and there is time for you to fight! — Sunday Adelaja

If you long to be a mighty warrior, to do great things for the Lord, and to win the world for Him, then remember that your power is in your prayer life. — Sunday Adelaja

4. If you don't know the Word of God concerning your problem, then worship Him. — Sunday Adelaja

The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking — Sunday Adelaja

If your prayers remain unanswered, start fasting — Sunday Adelaja

Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton
in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength — Rosa Parks

We must lift our hands to God in prayer, crying out to Him to help us fulfill what He has called us for, to fulfill His will — Sunday Adelaja

We build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together, like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together. In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. We talk with, rather than about, each other. We learn from each other, and we appreciate our differences as well as our commonalities. We establish a divine bond with each other as we approach God together through family prayer, gospel study, and Sunday worship. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Our intercession prayers make God's mercy to triumph against judgment — Sunday Adelaja

I suppose there may be a branch president or a high councilor or an elders quorum president or a visiting teacher in the room who wants to know what it is we are to accomplish as Church members when we get together, even if it's only in a home evening group or an opportunity to pray together. Well, this passage indicates that it may have something to do with remembering each other. We all count. Everyone matters. We have a name and it's recorded and we need to remember that here. No one must get lost. "And their names were taken, that they might be remembered and nourished by the good word of God ... to keep them continually watchful unto prayer, relying alone upon the merits of Christ ... to fast and to speak with one another concerning the welfare of their souls ... to observe that there should be no iniquity among them"
what a great thought about meetings and what they are supposed to do, what a Sunday School class can be, what a scriptural discussion in an apartment can be. — Jeffrey R. Holland

It's not possible for a person who has one to one fellowship with God, someone who breaks through in prayer and who knows how to wait for God not to have open success. It's just not possible! — Sunday Adelaja

If the mountain remains standing, it is useless to pray endlessly. God is waiting for you to do something yourself. — Sunday Adelaja

The first direction of a prayer: believe that God is able to manage your problem and appeal to Him. — Sunday Adelaja

You have to bind the devil and command him to set these people free. — Sunday Adelaja

For a moment he came near to sharing their incredible belief - it would do no harm to mutter a prayer of thanks to the God of his childhood, the God of the Common and the castle, that no ill had yet come to Sarah's child. Then a sonic boom scattered the words of the hymn and shook the old glass of the west window and rattled the crusader's helmet which hung on a pillar, and he was reminded again of the grown-up world. He went quickly out and bought the Sunday papers. The Sunday Express had a headline on the front page - Child's Body Found in Wood. — Graham Greene

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings. — Billy Sunday

The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is! — Leonard Ravenhill

The prayer of the church determines the history and the fate of its people as well as the whole earth — Sunday Adelaja

The gift of speaking in tongues enables us to experience deeper prayer and thanksgiving — Sunday Adelaja

God works on earth only through the prayers of believers and based on this basis, the destiny of this world is not in the hands of earthly kings and rulers but in the hands of prayer warriors. — Sunday Adelaja

If you manage to organize your prayer life, then you will become extremely effective — Sunday Adelaja

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord. — Pope Francis

The more fervently we pray, the more the Lord shows mercy upon them that we pray for, removing the reasons for cries and wailings — Sunday Adelaja

Our prayer should address our Father with the complete understanding of God's fatherhood — Sunday Adelaja

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water. — Jonathan Swift

Prayer connects us with God and together we are unstoppable — Sunday Adelaja

Outside of muttering his way through Sunday service, Aaron had not voiced a conscious prayer in more than ten years. He supposed it wouldn't help his chances in the hereafter if he returned to the fold with Saints preserve me from premature ejaculation. No matter how sincerely uttered. — Tessa Dare

Your prayer life has to be on such a level that you will be able to say, "If I ask the Father for something, I'll have it. — Sunday Adelaja

An amusing, if rather pathetic, case study in miracles is the Great Prayer Experiment: does praying for patients help them recover? Prayers are commonly offered for sick people, both privately and in formal places of worship. Darwin's cousin Francis Galton was the first to analyse scientifically whether praying for people is efficacious. He noted that every Sunday, in churches throughout Britain, entire congregations prayed publicly for the health of the royal family. Shouldn't they, therefore, be unusually fit, compared with the rest of us, who are prayed for only by our nearest and dearest?* Galton looked into it, and found no statistical difference. — Richard Dawkins

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son. — Steve Harvey

There are times we need a hug. A prayer. A listening ear. The tricky part is that it's not always easy to know when those times will come along. So God made a plan for us to gather, to not neglect meeting together.9 That happens in church, at Sunday school, and in Bible studies, and it happens in our homes - those times when we regularly gather to strengthen the spiritual safety net we all need. — Susie Davis

For you to know your calling and push aside the veil covering your future, it is necessary to turn to God in prayer and meditate on the Word of God — Sunday Adelaja

Your relationship with God has to be alive: Learn to be His child — Sunday Adelaja

If you want to have a big and strong church, then you need to build a prayer wall of defense in the spiritual realm... — Sunday Adelaja

When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit. — Sunday Adelaja

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. — Billy Sunday

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need. — David Jeremiah

The church is a house of prayer for all nations — Sunday Adelaja

To know your future, turn to the Lord in prayer — Sunday Adelaja

The second direction of prayer lies in us addressing our own circumstances and changing them ourselves — Sunday Adelaja

I get that. For you, it's more than following a bunch of rules - no sex, no booze, no swear words, pray every night and twice on Sunday. — Laura Anderson Kurk

Develop your prayer language; increase your prayer coverage. — Sunday Adelaja

Your faith should go ahead of your prayer — Sunday Adelaja