Prayer Quotes

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.

One positive command he gave us: You shall love and honor your emperor. In every congregation a prayer must be said for the czar's health, or the chief of police would close the synagogue.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

I think at some point at a moment of enlightenment in the future, the federal government and perhaps a future Supreme Court is going to say it's not a bad thing for children to hear prayer in school.

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

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.

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

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.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

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.

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.

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.