Prayer Quotes

The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

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

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

may I be I is the only prayer--not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong.

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

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.

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.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.

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.

So my hope and prayer is that people will be impacted by the realization that miracles are everywhere and that God uses them to communicate to us that we're not alone, and that we do have help.

Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.

Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.

Prayer is the only adequate way to multiply our efforts fast enough to reap the harvest God desires.

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.

Be sure that your motive in praying is to glorify God.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Prayer opens our lives for God so his will can be done in and through us, because in true prayer we habitually put ourselves into the attitude of willingness to do whatever God wills.

Pray, hope and don't worry. Anxiety doesn't help at all. Our Merciful Lord will listen to your prayer.

As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.

Fingers interlocked like a beautiful accordion of flesh or a zipper of prayer

Souls who do not practice prayer are like people whose limbs are paralyzed.

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

Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

Prayer moves the arm that moves the world.

Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.

Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.