Prayer Quotes

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

Prayer is the supreme way to be workers together with God.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.

If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray.

Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses, we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

I, retired in prayer, will always be with you, and together we will move ahead with the Lord in certainty. The Lord is victorious.

Pray, hope, don't worry.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.

When a church is truly convinced that prayer is where the action is, that church will so construct its corporate activities that the prayer program will have the highest priority.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Whoever in prayer can say, 'Our Father', acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

It is my conviction that there is perhaps no single factor more important in a spiritual home and in building spiritual strength in our children than the teaching and practice of prayer.

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

The life of prayer is so great and various there is something in it for everyone. It is like a garden which grows everything, from alpines to potatoes.

The silence of prayer is the silence of listening.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

Ah, when shall come love's courage to be strong! Tell me, O Lord--tell me, O Lord, how long Are we to keep Christ writhing on the cross!

The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.

We can do nothing without prayer.

We can never know God as it is our privilege to know Him by brief repetitions that are requests for personal favors, and nothing more.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

There is no promise too hard for God to fulfill. No prayer is too big for Him to answer!

Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility on to Him.