Prayer Quotes

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.

In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.

Prayer is the bridge over which the Kingdom of God comes to the earth.

I'm folding up my little dreams Within my heart tonight, And praying I may soon forget The torture of their sight.

To pray well one must pray much.

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

[P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.

If you would have God hear you when you pray, you must hear him when he speaks.

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.

When the prayer becomes the vibration of the mind and self, then we can create a miracle.

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 picture is like a prayer.

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.

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

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.

All the Ten Commandments and prayer is an acknowledgement of the Almighty God. We will not back down from that.

I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions

Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty; and wish to see you with a hundred eyes . . . I am in the house of mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

I still say the Lord's Prayer every day. It covers a lot of ground in our relation to the world.

Prayer draws us near to our own souls.

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

Live as if your prayers are to be answered.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.