Prayer Quotes

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

My heart and prayers go out to all single moms because it's tough, and I can't imagine any teenager dealing with a baby and all those hormones raging.

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

My favorite prayer is thank you. Most people are asking for things and not doing their part.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

The supernatural laws of prayer defy the natural laws of time and space.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

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

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

The thing to try and keep in mind, no matter what the day, is there is always something good, to give thanks to God in 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.

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.

Live as if your prayers are to be answered.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

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

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will have for praise.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.

Meditation goes in. Prayer goes out. But they both aim for the same place of union between you and the devine.

The spiritual leader should outpace the rest of the church, above all, in prayer.

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers.

Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

Prayer enables us to transform the world because it transforms us.

Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.

The effective prayers are affirmations.

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.

I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant.

If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint, Each lost day has its patron saint!

I know there are millions of people praying for me, and I strongly believe in prayers.

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

Not what we wish, but what we want, Oh! let thy grace supply, The good unask'd, in mercy grant; The ill, though ask'd, deny.

Almighty Power, by whose most wise command, helpless, forlorn, uncertain, here I stand, take this faint glimmer of thyself away, or break into my soul with perfect day!

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.

The Spirit does not lead you to pray for useless goals.