Prayer Quotes

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

Music is a form of prayer.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.