Prayer Quotes

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.

Each person's prayers can help everyone.

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

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

God knows that sometimes we lack words to express our feelings, heart-cry, thoughts. And so within the Bible he includes people's prayers as models to help our own.

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.

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.

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

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

'Help' is a prayer that is always answered.

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

He had been (Thinking? Praying?) It was all the same thing.

I have to hurry all day to get time to pray.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.

Eventually your little choices are going to become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

To the infinite, all finites are equal.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

What would your prayers look like if you believed that the cross really was the measure of God's compassion for someone?

When others doubt the power of Jesus, be the one who asks Him to perform the impossible. He often will.

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Let his sword break and his shield shatter, Sansa thought coldly as she shoved out through the doors, let his courage fail him and every man desert him.

Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth

It was a hollow victory they gave me. A crown...it was the girl I prayed them for. Your sister, safe... and mine again as she was meant to be. I ask you, Ned, what good is it to wear a crown?

There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children

I am awake, I see the sun. I am going to give my gratitude to the sun and to everything and everyone because I am still alive. One more day to be myself.

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Leaders inspire the people around them to become better.

Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.

The common man prays, 'I want a cookie right now!' And God responds, 'If you'd listen to what I say, tomorrow it will bring you 100 cookies.

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.