Prayer Quotes

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.

Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.

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

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Every Wednesday, my husband and I have a study group with our friends. I attend church. We try to devote time in the morning, say a prayer.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.