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John Calvin Quotes about Prayer

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Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

Faith, Religious, Prayer

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

Prayer, Exercise, Chiefs

John Calvin (2015). “Commentary on Daniel”, p.353, Ravenio Books

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

Prayer, Powerful, Men

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

Prayer, Memories, Hours In The Day

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On Daniel 1- 6 (Annotated Edition)”, p.342, Jazzybee Verlag

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

Prayer, Doubtful

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Psalms 119 - 150 (Annotated Edition)”, p.209, Jazzybee Verlag

We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.

Prayer, Thinking, Wish

John Calvin (2012). “John Calvin's Commentaries On The Harmony Of The Gospels Vol. 1 (Annotated Edition)”, p.321, Jazzybee Verlag

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

Prayer, Godly, Tyrants

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

Christian, Prayer, Keys

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Perseverance, Prayer, Results

John Calvin (2012). “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)”, p.803, Jazzybee Verlag

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

Prayer, Answers, Facts

John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Psalms”, p.789, Ravenio Books

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

Prayer, Hands, Mind

"Institutes of the Christian Religion" by John Calvin, translated by Henry Beveridge, Book III, (Ch. 20), 1845.

Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.

Prayer, Heart, Joy

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.

Prayer, Mercy

John Calvin (2012). “Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)”, p.27, Jazzybee Verlag

Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.

Perseverance, Prayer, Heart

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

Prayer, Ignorance, Would Be

John Calvin “Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion”, Westminster John Knox Press

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

Trust, Christian, Prayer

John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.623, Wipf and Stock Publishers

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

Prayer, Treasure, Sovereign

John Calvin (2012). “Of Prayer (Annotated Edition)”, p.18, Jazzybee Verlag

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

Prayer, Fasting, Worship

John Calvin (2013). “Commentary on Luke”, p.88, Ravenio Books

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