Prayer Quotes

Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.

Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.

Nine times out of ten, declension from God begins in the neglect of private prayer.

All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

True prayer is the trading of the heart with God.

A prayer less soul is a Christ less soul.

Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.

I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.

Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.

With prayer, you may be able to start one discipline or habit that will overflow into many more positive, God-honoring traits.

Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.

God listens to our weeping when the occasion itself is beyond our knowledge, but still within His love and power.

In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.'

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.'

seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope

Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.

No duty is more earnestly impressed upon us in Scripture than the duty of continual communion with Him.

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

There is a way of beholding nature which is a form of prayer, a way of minding something with such clarity and aliveness that the rest of the world recedes. It . . . gives the brain a small vacation.

Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.

Prayer is the supreme instance of the hidden character of the Christian life.

The Psalter is the great school of prayer.

Before I put on my make up, I say a little prayer for you.

Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks.

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.

Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer.

What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.

Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

Faith builds in the dungeon and lazarhouse its sublimest shrines; and up, through roofs of stone, that shut out the eye of heaven, ascends the ladder where the angels glide to and fro,--prayer.

When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

The only limits to prayer are the promises of God and His ability to fulfill those promises.

The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.

Prayer is our most formidable weapon, the thing which makes all else we do efficient.

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

Prayer concerns God, whose purposes and plans are conditioned on prayer. His will and His glory are bound up in praying.

Mans access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.