Prayer Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.

We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.

We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seemed to me to be bent on bullying God.

When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.

It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.

I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.

The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.

To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.

We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.

Prayer must mean something to us, if it is to mean anything to God.

Afflictions for God's sake are dearer to Him than any prayer or sacrifice.

Did we perfectly know the state of our own condition, and what was most proper for us, we might have reason to conclude our prayers not heard if not answered.

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.

If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure.

Blessings are the spiritual equivalent of breathing in, and prayer is the spiritual equivalent of breathing out.

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father. How important it is, then, that one of our fundamental teachings to our children is how to pray.

Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.

I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

A good deed is the best prayer.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

Faith furnishes prayer with wings, without which it cannot soar to Heaven.

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

There must be fired affections before our prayers will go up.

Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

Give us an intense distaste for things that displease You and a renewed pleasure in things that bring You honor and magnify Your truth.

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

Sometimes the best answers to prayer are the ones God doesn't answer.