Prayer Quotes

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.

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

Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

I can say that paintings are prayers, they have to do with anything that makes you wish for more that what everyday life provides.

The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.

The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.

When we pray, we don't change the world, we change ourselves.

My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

The kingdom of heaven is not come even when God's will is our law; it is fully come when God's will is our will.

Meditation and prayer are my secret weapons, and when I use them, I can move mountains.

When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.

It is impossible to have a prayer without power.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.

Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.

In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life, the harmony and continual interpenetration of the two spheres of life - communion with God and the work on earth.

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

There is only one prayer and that is prayer for light, for purity, for perfection.

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

A congregation that is not deeply and earnestly involved in the worldwide proclamation of the gospel does not understand the nature of salvation.

Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."

My heart goes out to the people of the city of Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with the families who lost loved ones in such a senseless and heartless way.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

Many Christians are so spiritually frail, sickly, and lacking in spiritual vitality that they cannot stick to prayer for more than a few minutes at a time.

People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.

We cannot evangelize until we have been evangelized. This happens most powerfully through solitary prayer.