Prayer Quotes

Sainthood's piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long.

Earth bears no balsams for mistakes; Men crown the knave, and scourge the tool That did his will: but thou, O Lord, Be merciful to me, a fool.

Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.

Prayer ardent opens heaven.

Unless inside, where no one sees, our soul is kneelling, too, a prayer is not so likely to get through.

Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you deal with words.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.

Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick.

All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

I cannot love thee; thou 'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue that we ever reared thee!

That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.

I make music to make you sick of fake music, hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers, your Hail Marys and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

A strong belief in fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand, there is a comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

Those who are heavy-laden with despair should come unto the Lord.

... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

Just before bedtime prayers, evaluate each day. Make plans for tomorrow that will move you toward your long-range goal. Strive for a close partnership with God in making your dreams come true.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

we do not believe until we want a thing and feel that we shall die if 'tis not granted to us, and then we kneel and kneel and believe, because we must have someone to ask help from.

Labor! all labor is noble and holy! Let thy great deeds be thy prayer to thy God.

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

The enemy just hates our prayers.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

My father was a Social Gospel, far-left liberal, and to some degree a mystic. But we did not have Bible readings; we had prayers.

Prayer is not ever thing, but everything is by prayer.

Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.

Prior to the meeting, there was a prayer. In general, in the United States there was always praying.

This is the spirit of prayer--sincere, humble, believing, submissive. Other prayer than this the Bible does not require--God will not accept.

Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.

Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer.

Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom.

Prayer is to vibrate, do the devotion, whatever it is, to whoever you believe in, Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any of them. You get the response depending on how much you need it.

Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.

A good prayer is master of anothers purse.

Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.

If airports can be seen as temples to travel, gateways to other worlds, then airport carpets are the vast prayer mats upon which we all genuflect.

The girl had hoped for fog, but the gods ignored her prayers as gods so often did.

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.

Prayer has comforted us in sorrow and will help strengthen us for the journey ahead.