Prayer Quotes

"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray.

I really appreciate leaders from around the globe who have come to share in prayer with us today. It reminds me that the Almighty God is a God to everybody, every person.

We do not prescribe any prayer; we welcome all prayer.

The bond between mothers and their children is one defined by love. As a mother's prayers for her children are unending, so are the wisdom, grace, and strength they provide to their children.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.

Our rages, daughters of despair, creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

Women have a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope.

when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.

I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #‎ prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #‎ Heaven .

As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.

Speaking uses us up, speeds us up. Without prayer, that act of confession for merely existing, one might live forever and not know it.

Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something new to occur.

Prayer without heart is a waste to time.

God uses prayer to educate His people and to produce holiness of character in them.

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air.

We are inviting you to invest yourself through the resources that God has given you - your energy, your prayers and your money - in this work to which God has called us.

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

Prayer is a conversation with God, but prayer is no substitute for work.

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

Prayers are offered up daily - without charge... Refreshments are served when demanded.

I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

There is no harder shield for the devil to pierce with temptation than singing with prayer.

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.

This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture.

This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do.

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

There is a war being waged right now on prayer and religion by liberals who are taking every opportunity to make America as God-less as possible.

If you're going to say the Jesus Prayer, at least say it to Jesus, and not to St. Francis and Seymour and Heidi's grandfather all wrapped up in one.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.