Prayer Quotes

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

A saint is to put forth his faith in prayer, and afterwards follow his prayer with faith.

I am very defective in all duties... In prayer I wander and am formal... I soon tire; devotion languishes; and I do not walk with God.

Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

I have seen many men work without praying, though I have never seen any good come out of it; but I have never seen a man pray without working.

O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

It is easy to magnify human personality and agencies. Prayer recognizes that God is the source of life and light and energy.

The Word of God represents all the possibilities of God as at the disposal of true prayer.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer.

Intercession is the most unselfish thing anyone can do.

I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?

The explanation is that prayer is not primarily God's way of getting things done. It is God's way of giving the church 'on the job training' in overcoming the forces hostile to God.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Prayer is converse with God, equal honor with the Angels, progress in good things, averting of evils, righting of sinners.

In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.

Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.

Trust, which is a virtue, is also a habit, like prayer. It requires exercise. And just as no one can run five miles a day and cede the cardiovascular effects to someone else, no one can trust for us.

A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.

My love for prayer was an answer to prayer.

God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.

I pray without ceasing now. My personal prayer is: Make me an instrument which only truth can speak.

My biggest concern for this generation is your inability to focus, especially in prayer.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

The love ofChrist is my prayer-book

We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.

It is an old custom of the servants of God to have some little prayer ready and to be frequently darting them up to heaven during the day, lifting their minds to God out of the mire of this world.

Viewers all over the world, my prayer partners, whatever situation you are in, be delivered in the mighty name of Jesus Christ! Those who wait upon the LORD shall be delivered!

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.

God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.

The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation.

There is no chasm in society that cannot be firmly and permanently bridged by intercession; there is no feud or dislike that cannot be healed by the same exercise of love.

Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.

It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.