Prayer Quotes

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

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.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

I believe if we introduced the Lord's Prayer here, senators would propose a large number of amendments to it.

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer.