Prayer Quotes

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

Prayers aren't for the deity...They're for you, to recommit yourself to what you believe.

Oh, God, if I were sure I were to die tonight I would repent at once. It is the commonest prayer in all languages.

Prayer moves the arm Which moves the world, And brings salvation down.

If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy.

Michele Bachmann told reporters that she will lead the nation in prayer if she is elected president. You know if she is elected president, we all better be praying. She doesn't have to lead us.

I have lived life long enough to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.

Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.

If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

I do not believe that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew

The only way things work around here is if everybody wants it to work. If everybody wants it to work, then it has a prayer. Even then, there's no guarantee. But at least it has a prayer.

We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.

Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers.

We need to realize that the promises that overflow our Bibles will overflow into our own lives only as we appropriate them through prayer.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer.

I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.

God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.

A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down.

Worrying is one of my few forms of prayer.

Thoughts and prayers go out to Michael Weiner's family. A great leader and man. Going to be missed.

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.

The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.

Whatever is the object of a saint's hope is the subject of his prayer.

What I think is critically important is that there are lots of studies on how prayer effects people that are ill, lots of studies, and I know in my life my prayers have been answered.

Prayer doesn’t work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage.

When late I attempted your pity to move, Why seemed you so deaf to my prayers? Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love But-why did you kick me downstairs?

According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for.

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.

Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us.

Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.'.

I believe prayer for our nation has never been more important as we witness an accelerating anti-Christian fervor in the so-called mainstream of our culture.

When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family.

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water.