Prayer Quotes

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy

There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.

If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.

Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.

It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.

Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

Prayer is God's ordained way to bring His miracle power to bear in human need.

If you lack wisdom in regard to a problem, you need to go to God in prayer.

The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times!

No one can pray and worry at the same time.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.

Sometimes we don't appreciate Prayer until we have to go through something!

Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

Prayer is my chief work, and it is by means of it that I carry on the rest.

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

When the Holy Rosary is said well, it gives Jesus and Mary more glory and is more meritorious than any other prayer.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

In prayer, more is accomplished by listening than by talking.

Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world.

There is nothing the devil fears so much, or so much tries to hinder, as prayer.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to hear it, that we want it only when we think we need it.

Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.

Pray as you can, not as you can't.

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.

The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul.

Christians, instead of arming themselves with swords, extend their hands in prayer.

All great soul-winners have been men of much and mighty prayer, and all great revivals have been preceded and carried out by persevering, prevailing knee-work in the closet.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.