Prayer Quotes

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

It is not my prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits for my love.

Every thought of God is prayer.

Many people think their prayers are never answered because it is the answered ones they forget.

We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided.

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.

Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow. Follow-up is the answer to a bureaucrat's prayers.

Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

The art of work . . . It is going to your work as you go to worship, with a prayer of thankfulness and the aspiration to serve.

Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.

Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.

By prayer, the ability is secured to feel the law of love, to speak according to the law of love, and to do everything in harmony with the law of love.

The reason America is a special nation is because it was founded by people who were first on their knees before they were on their feet. We are a nation rooted in our faith.

Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .

Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer … Laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.

Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace?

Prayer is - keeping company with God.

When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.

The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button.

I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment.

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap.

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

Purring is not so different from praying. To a tree, a cat's purr is one of the purest of all prayers, for in it lies a whole mixture of gratitude and longing, the twin ingredients of every prayer.

Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

Before reciting his prayers, a man should give to charity.

You can delegate a lot of things, but you can't delegate PRAYER. I'd rather have one GOD idea than a thousand GOOD ideas.

How deeply rooted must unbelief be in our hearts when we are surprised to find our prayers answered.

And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us!

I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want.

There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

Worship seals all prayers at the front and at the back. Always pray with praise beginning and praise ending.

My constant prayer, these days, as I start my backswing is, 'Oh, please let me swing slowly.' The trouble is that sometimes I wonder whether I swing at all; whether I am not strictly a chopper.