Prayer Quotes

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.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

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

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.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

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.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat.