Prayer Quotes

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.

Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

A dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

To-despise the world is the way to enjoy heaven; and blessed are they who delight to converse with God by prayer.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

O, let the place of secret prayer become to me the most beloved spot on earth.

Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.

Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself.

Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.

Ever doubt that God answers your prayers? Pray (sincerely) for humility... and watch what happens.

God is wanting you to give Him the despised, the humdrum things in your life - like feet - and let Him make them beautiful.

Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.

Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer.

HELPED are those whose every act is a prayer for peace; on them depends the future of the world.

Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

The House of Commons starts its proceedings with a prayer. The chaplain looks at the assembled members with their varied intelligence and then prays for the country.

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.

Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.

Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

When pressure builds up, don't panic. Pray! Prayer is a tremendous stress reliever. It can be your safety valve.

Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude.

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.