Prayer Quotes

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

I believe that those who die for Ireland have no need for prayer

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

prayer is nothing more than thought. It is a yearning of the heart.

The greatest privilege God gives to you is the freedom to approach Him at any time.

Prayer is a law of the universe, like gravity. You don't even have to believe in God to ask.

Prayer is a silent surrendering of everything to God.

And if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.

The Prince of the power of the air seems to bend all the force of his attack against the spirit of prayer.

If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

A life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life.

Prayer is the highest intelligence, the profoundest wisdom, the most vital, the most joyous, the most efficacious, the most powerful of all vocations.

Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

if the devil can get the church to withdraw from prayer by believing reasonable excuses, the church is under his dominion.

Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.

The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

Some want prayer in school, some want condoms. Printing prayers on condoms satisfies nobody.

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.

Not a lot of individuals get to refer to the Lord in their prayers as 'Dude', but he's doing a new thing with me.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

In too many churches today, people don't see manifestations of God's power in answer to fervent praying. Instead, they hear arguments about theological issues that few people care about.

The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.

They spend more time in analyzing, in collecting materials, and in hard thinking than on prayer, on seeking God's mind, and on waiting for the power from above.

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.