Prayer Quotes

Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.

Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.

...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.

Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray.

First, we can pray in communion with the Church on earth and in heaven. Let us not underestimate the power of so many voices united in prayer!

The key that opens the door to the faith is prayer.

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

The Rosary is my favorite prayer.

I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at this dark and tragic moment.

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.

To pray is to let Jesus come into our hearts. It is not our prayer which moves the Lord Jesus. It is Jesus who moves us to pray.

Prayer is such a great effort to most of us because we do not pray right.

Prayer is the risen Jesus coming in with His resurrection power, given free rein in our lives, and then using His authority to enter any situation and change things.

If God does not give you something you ask for, wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

The quiet hour of prayer is one of the most favorable opportunities

I've recorded songs that are prayers in different styles, not just in the traditional gospel style that can help and comfort them. It's the words that matter most.

My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

Never waste a prayer on something that isn't important.

Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy lake of Galilee

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

The prayer of the saints is never self-important, but always God-important.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the spiritual efficacy of success in prayer.

Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

Prayer imparts the power to walk and not faint.

The test is the sixty seconds of every minute, and the sixty minutes of every hour, not our times of prayer and devotional meetings.

Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.

Prayer is not optional for the Christian; it is required.

Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.

Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing.

To be present is to be prayerful.

Laughter is more sacred than prayer, dancing more spiritual than chanting mantras, loving existence more cosmic than going to a church.

Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.

Love happens when you are ready to share with another human being. Prayer happens when you are ready to share with God.

First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.

I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.

As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.

Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.

Our prayers are prophets.

The only certainties that don't break down are those acquired in prayer.

A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people.