Prayer Quotes

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.

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

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

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.'

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

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.