Matthew Henry Prayer Quotations

The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.