Prayer Quotes

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

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

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 Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

I have questioned God sometimes whether prayers have gone unanswered. But answered prayer is still harder to believe.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Prayer implies surrender to the will of the giver, demand preconceives a right to receive. Pray, my dear, and you shall receive.

When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.

The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.

sometimes i wonder does god just not care are is he to busy ignoring your prayers

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love.

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.

Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

Prayer continues to provide power--spiritual power. Prayer continues to provide peace--spiritual peace.

To give prayer the secondary place is to make God seconday in life's affairs.

When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

My austerities, fasting and prayers are, I know, of no value if I rely upon them for reforming me. My penance is the prayer of a bleeding heart for forgiveness for sins unwittingly committed.

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

Thanks Darling for the beautiful flowers and all the prayers. Now can you just get my puppy past security?

The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.

Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then

Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people.

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

Each person's prayers can help everyone.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.

Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I'm singing - whatever I'm singing. I missed it when I left it.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.