Prayer Quotes

Elizabeth George

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.. Elizabeth George
It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

William Arnot

Like an echo from a ruined castle, prayer is an echo from the ruined human soul of the sweet promise of God.

John Bunyan

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

Corrie Ten Boom

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

Paulo Coelho

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

Dave Ramsey

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Franz Kafka

Writing is prayer.

Jennifer Elisabeth

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

Charles H. Spurgeon

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

Donna Pyle

Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.

Marilynne Robinson

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.


I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

Michael Bassey Johnson

God used the element of faith to construct the earth and its inhabitants. Whatever he said, it came to pass, then dropped these elements in us to say whatever we want to also come to pass, but sin and disbelieve has murdered the faith in us and need to be ressurected by purity and strong will power.

Todd Stocker

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

Bernice Morgan

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

Amit Kalantri

Taking actions will fulfill your dreams and wishes, not the prayers and blessings.

Rick Yancey

I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.

J.C. Ryle

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

Peter Kreeft

We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

William Barclay

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

E.M. Bounds

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

Andrew Murray

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

Jared Brock

Somewhere, somehow, at some unknown intersection between prayer and work, God indwells our humble offering - God indwells us - and turns human actions into spiritual awakenings.

David G. McAfee

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

Mother Teresa

The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace

Mark Twain

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."

[Mark Twain, a Biography]

Toba Beta

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems.
Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them.

Mother Jones

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Oswald Chambers

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Amit Ray

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the
Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

Fanny J. Crosby

God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive.

John F. Kennedy

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]

Eben Alexander

Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

Karl Rahner

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Andrew Murray

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

Quentin Crisp

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.

Ravi Zacharias

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

Alexander Pope

If I am right, Thy grace impart
Still in the right to stay;
If I am wrong, O, teach my heart
To find that better way!

Mike Mignola

Since the beginning of the world, a prayer is a prayer and a curse is a curse- no matter the people- no matter the language- Man has given a thousand different namesto his god, but look into the face of each one- long enough- hard enough- You will find one truth.

Toba Beta

Sometimes, we feel conscious but unable to move our body.
The first thing to do is focus in a prayer, then start to wink frequently.
By this way, slowly but sure our body can be moved totally by our persistent willpower.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I could watch him do this until morning - never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly - his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.

Erin Fall Haskell

As consciousness expands, so does perception of self.

Thomas Aquinas

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught…

J.I. Packer

Confidence that one's impressions are God-given is no guarantee that this is really so, even when they persist and grow stronger through long seasons of prayer. Bible-based wisdom must judge them.

Jacques Philippe

In order to resist fear and discouragement, it is necessary that through prayer - through a personal experience of God re-encountered, recognized and loved in prayer - we taste and see how good the Lord is (Psalm 34).

Bamigboye Olurotimi

We need to keep on praying, keep on believing, keep on enduring and keep on trusting God. With God, all things are subject to change

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

Joshua Kai

Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.

Elizabeth Gilbert

... most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.

Anthony Liccione

If you are reading this, be sure to count this on your blessings list.

The Prolific Penman

Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

W.B. Yeats

Nor dread nor hope attend
A dying animal;
A man awaits his end
Dreading and hoping all.

Soren Kierkegaard

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Sylvia Plath

I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

Corrie Ten Boom

Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

Amit Ray

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

Amit Ray

The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.

Mahatma Gandhi

When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

Alexandre Dumas

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

Craig Groeschel

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

Eric Clapton

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

John Bunyan

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

John Irving

O God - please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

John Ortberg Jr.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Kimberly Novosel

I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.

Nicholas Sparks

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

John Ortberg Jr.

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

C.S. Lewis

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.

Billy Graham

Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

Samuel Butler

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Paul E. Miller

God takes everyone he loves through a desert. It is his cure for our wandering hearts, restlessly searching for a new Eden...
The best gift of the desert is God's presence... The protective love of the Shepherd gives me courage to face the interior journey.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

Paul E. Miller

Sometimes when we say "God is silent," what's really going on is that he hasn't told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in the blanks of the story we are creating. But with his own stories, the ones we live in, he is seldom silent.

Oswald Chambers

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

Peter Kreeft

The saints, too, had wandering minds. The saints, too, had constantly to recall their constantly wandering mind-child home. They became saints because they continued to go after the little wanderer, like the Good Shepherd.

Paul E. Miller

If you wait, your heavenly Father will pick you up, carry you out into the night, and make your life sparkle. He wants to dazzle you with the wonder of his love.

Henri Matisse

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.

Peter Kreeft

Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

Thaddeus Of Vitovnica

It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God's Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always.

Paul E. Miller

Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

Padre Pio

Pray, hope, and don't worry. Worry is useless. God is merciful and will hear your prayer.

Alistair Begg

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

Ouida

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.
-"Wanda

Sarah Palin

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

Melissa Z

Loving someone is waking up a little bit earlier than they do so you can pray for their day.

Jehovah

Keep on the watch and pray

Karl Rahner

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

Toba Beta

A prayer is a chat with thy God.

Charles Grandison Finney

When God has specially promised the thing, we are bound to believe we shall recieve it when we pray for it. You have no right to put in an 'if', and say, 'Lord, if it be thy will..." This is to insult God. To put an 'if' in God's promise when God has put none there, is tantamount to charging God with being insincere.

Frank C. Laubach

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

Johanna Spyri

We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

Michael Flynn

Hans clacked his side-lips. "Do you have the sentence in your head that tomorrow's procession will halt this pest of yours, that it will bar the small-lives from the High Woods?"
"If it is as you say, no. No more than prayer can stay a charging horse. But that is not why we pray. God is no cheap juggler as to play for a pfennig.

George MacDonald

If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction.

Andrew Murray

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

Paul E. Miller

As we wait and pray, God weaves his story and creates a wonder. Instead of drifting between comedy (denial) and tragedy (reality), we have a relationship with the living God, who is intimately involved with the details of our worlds. We are learning to watch for the story to unfold, to wait for the wonder.

Vicki Lane

Prayer ain't weakened by distance.

Charles R. Swindoll

Choose to view life through God's eyes. This will not be easy because it doesn't come naturally to us. We cannot do this on our own. We have to allow God to elevate our vantage point. Start by reading His Word, the Bible...Pray and ask God to transform your thinking. Let Him do what you cannot. Ask Him to give you an eternal, divine perspective.

Charles R. Swindoll

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak; you believe My word; your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

Anne Brontë

That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.

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