Prayer Quotes

To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.

Prayer is not a device for getting our wills done through heaven, but a desire that God's will may be done on earth through us.

More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

Prayer is a condition of mind, an attitude of heart, which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking, in sighing or in audible words.

and here I felt a strange leaping of my heart-God did! My job was to simply follow His leading one step at a time, holding every decision up to him in prayer.

God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.

I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.

Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.

Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

My father thrives on fear. You know that prayer If I should die before I wake? I had sheets that said that!

We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

Every single emotion you have should be processed in prayer.

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.

No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.

God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.

As I go into a cemetery I like to think of the time when the dead shall rise from their graves. ... Thank God, our friends are not buried; they are only sown!

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

Prayer is a weapon, a mighty weapon in a terrible conflict. Our prayers are to be a continual, conscious, earnest effort of battle, the battle against whatever is not God's will.

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.

THE FAMILY THAT PRAYS TOGETHER STAYS TOGETHER. A WORLD AT PRAYER IS A WORLD AT PEACE.

Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.

Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.

Abiding fully means praying much.

Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.