Prayer Quotes

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."

Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God.

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

Contemplative prayer [oración mental] in my opinion is nothing else than a close sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with him who we know loves us.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.

God doesn't want people to do what they think is best: he wants them to do what he knows is best, and no amount of reasoning and intellectualizing will discover that.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Prayer is designed to adjust you to God's will, not to adjust God to your will.

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

A man may study because his brain is hungry for knowledge, even Bible knowledge. But he prays because his soul is hungry for God.

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

I fear John Knox's prayers more than an army of ten thousand men.

You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I've had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

We cannot pray and remain the same.

And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.

Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

I'm amazed, that how salam (peace) is always the first word to start a meeting. but in prayer it is the end word. Maybe it means the end of prayer is the start of a meeting.

Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that reared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra.

Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God's will.

The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered.

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."

Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.