Prayer Quotes

God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

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.

I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

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!

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

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.

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

Use "breath prayers" throughout the day, as many Christians have done for centuries. You choose a brief sentence or a simple phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in one breath: "You are with me."

Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.

Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

At school, I enjoyed playing the bassoon. I was in the orchestra and played the melody when the other boys sang hymns at prayers time.

Everyone's under pressure and you just have to learn how to deal with it. And I deal with it through prayer and staying busy.

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.

But have you wine and music still,And statues and a bright-eyed love,And foolish thoughts of good and ill,And prayers to them who sit above?

Prayer is the difference between you fighting for God and God fighting for you. Secret prayer is our secret weapon.

Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way of praying to God, but by living to God.

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the center of your heart filled with love.

Probably saying a 30-second prayer at a key moment has done more good than any psychotherapy or drugs I've prescribed.

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers.

The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

For prayer is the language of the heart.

For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth.

To say a prayer doesn't take more than a minute, but you need the discipline to do it.