Prayer Quotes

I'm for prayer in schools.

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

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

Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.

I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.

Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.

Prayer is the instrument of miracles.

All religion is founded on prayer, and in prayer it has its test and measure.

Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.

I believe with faith all is possible. An answer to prayer is greatest positive feedback you can get.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.

Praying solves the problems of prayer.

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases-it was the outpouring of the heart.

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

I say a little prayer every time I see a race. I say a little prayer that the riders and the horses will be okay.

Great morning prayer is like marinating in the Holy Spirit.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.

Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.