42 Notable Quotes that Confirm Prayer is the Master Key

Very common is the saying that “prayer is the master key.”

What a good memory! While in basic school, there is one common song that says:

Prayer is the key

Prayer is the key

Prayer is the master key...

Jesus started with prayer

And ended with prayer

Prayer is the master key.

In this wicked world we find ourselves, you will agree that everyone needs prayers to forge ahead in life because there is no way you can please everybody. That is why the Holy Bible says in Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 17 that "Pray without ceasing".

Some will hate you because you are progressing in life, some will be expecting you to be asking them for food and other basic things, and once you don’t, you are the first on their enemies’ list, and some believe your accomplishment is a threat to their lives, to mention a few.

But with prayers, you can conquer their wickedness and live your life peacefully. We communicate with God through prayer.

Prayer has great power. Time spent in prayer is never wasted. Since prayer is the key to unlocking everything, we must never stop praying.

In all circumstances, God is only a prayer away. All you have to do is keep praying. He'll undoubtedly step in. Just keep on praying.

Therefore, the illustrious prayer quotes provided in this post will encourage and inspire you as you try to deepen your faith and secure better days ahead via prayer.

We have compiled forty-two (42) famous quotes that demonstrate how prayer is the master key to human existence so as to inspire our readers to continue living prayerful and peaceful lifestyles.

[01].

"Prayer is the master key that unlocks all the gifts and visions for us to live the life of purpose."

- Euginia Herlihy

[02].

"We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth."

- Andrew Murray

[03].

"Obedience is the master key to effectual prayer."

- Billy Graham

[04].

"There is no other activity in life so important as that of prayer. Every other activity depends upon prayer for its best efficiency."

- M. E. Andross

[05].

"He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day."

- John Bunyan

[06].

"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet."

- E. M. Bounds

[07].

"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

- Satchel Paige

[08].

"Prayer, then, is a matter of our participating in the life of Jesus Christ."

- Michael Casey

[09].

"The value of persistent prayer is not that God will hear us, but that we will finally hear God."

- William McGill

[10].

"I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer."

- Martin Luther

[11].

"Work as if everything depends on you. Pray as if everything depends on God."

- St Ignatius Loyola

[12].

"Give me faith, Lord, and let me help others find it."

- Leo Tolstoy

[13].

"True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that, it is a spiritual transaction with the creator of Heaven and Earth."

- Charles Spurgeon

[14].

"Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts."

- Mother Teresa

[15].

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."

- C. S. Lewis

[16].

"Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of himself."

- Mother Theresa

[17].

"Do not make prayer a monologue... make it a conversation."

- Author Unknown

[18].

"Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and tumult of a thousand men."

- Kahlil Gibran

[19].

"Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work."

- Oswald Chambers

[20].

"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."

- George Herbert

[21].

"He who kneels the most, stands the best."

- D. L. Moody

[22].

"Prayer is a surge of the heart, it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."

- St Therese of Lisieux

[23].

"Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God."

- St John Damascene

[24].

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

- Oswald Chambers

[25].

"A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so."

- St Teresa of Avila

[26].

"It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

[27].

"The man who mobilizes the Christian church to pray will make the greatest contribution to world evangelization in history."

- Andrew Murray

[28].

"Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him."

- St Augustine

[29].

"Pray as you can, not as you can't."

- Dom Chapman

[30].

"There is variation in our prayer because we look toward God from different vantage points. Our situation changes; we develop and are subjected to a range of external factors. Our situation can also change because we deliberately choose to seek further into the mystery of God."

- Michael Casey

[31].

"Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself."

- St John Vianney

[32].

"The whole reason why we pray is to be united into the vision and contemplation of God to whom we pray."

- Julian of Norwich

[33].

"Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things... as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value."

- Teilhard de Chardin

[34].

"I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach."

- Charles Spurgeon

[35].

"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you' that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

[36].

"Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

- St Teresa of Avila

[37].

"A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

[38].

"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself."

- Georges Bernanos

[39].

"The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured."

- Rick Warren

[40].

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul."

- Mahatma Gandhi

[41].

"Any concern too small to be turned into prayer is too small to be made into a burden."

- Corrie Ten Bloom

[42].

"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer."

- Mother Teresa

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