Prayer Quotes

God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.

Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam.

Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

No prayer!--No faith!--No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!--Little faith!--Little Christ in the heart.

The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.

It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.

But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

True prayer is an approach of the soul by the Spirit of God to the throne of God.

T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

When he is forced to perform the same task several times, the Warrior uses this tactic and transforms work into prayer.

It's good to have a prayer on your lips wherever you go.

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

Sholeh Wolpé poetry proves to be rumination, prayer, song.

FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

I would like to emphasize again that right prayer leads to right action, that faith without works is dead. An excellent way to put thoughts into action is to write a letter for peace.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.

My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

A picture is like a prayer.

A picture is like a prayer; you're offering a prayer to get something, and in a sense it's like a gift of God because you have practically no control-at least I don't.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there.

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.

My prayer was always: 'Lord, if You bless me, I'll thank You: but if You don't, I'll be thankful for what I have. I have plenty. I'm in good shape.'

Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.

Real prayer is union with God.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.