Prayer Quotes

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

The prayer of faith is the only kind that is real prayer, and it is trust in God with full acknowledgment of God's power and love.

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

Does any sane man imagine that the church could cease to be missionary and remain the church?

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?

Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.

When you live with constant gratitude, your life will become a living prayer.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer.

Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.

To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.

And rest, that strengthens unto virtuous deeds, Is one with Prayer.

Labor, you know, is prayer.

How ready is heaven to those that pray!

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need.

Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.

The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary.

He [the Rev. Mr. Whitefield] used, indeed, sometimes to pray for my conversion, but never had the satisfaction of believing that his prayers were heard.

Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey.

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.

The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.

Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer.

I bought singles until I started working properly and then I started buying albums, so this brings back a lot of teenage memories from being in London before I got work

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

Military families so much appreciate the love, support and prayers.

I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing.

If you need a transfusion of spiritual strength then just ask for it. We call that Prayer. Prayer is powerful spiritual medicine.

The Atonement has practical, personal, everyday value; apply it in your life. It can be activated with so simple a beginning as prayer.

If prayer is to leave the public schools, let the ridicule of prayer leave also.

The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.

When every memory has been made and the pages start to fade. And every prayer you ever prayed is heaven bound. When you think the ride is over, you're back at the beginning. Love is never-ending.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.

Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.

I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church.

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church.

God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.

Prayer is the best response to hatred.

For a successful season of prayer, the best beginning is confession.