Prayer Quotes

A sacred space is not a place to hide out. It is a place where we recognize ourselves and our commitments.

~ Sherry Turkle

Leaders don't pray to God for money. They simply ask for His grace to solve problems. By solving problems, the money comes.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

I wish you much more grace for all your works.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundered the innermost citadel of hallowed Troy, was made to stay grievously about the coasts of men, the sport of their customs, good and bad, while his heart, through all the sea-faring, ached with an agony to redeem himself and bring his company safe home. Vain hope – for them. The fools! Their own witlessness cast them aside. To destroy for meat the oxen of the most exalted Sun, wherefore the Sun-god blotted out the day of their return. Make this tale live for us in all its many bearings, O Muse.” – from Homer’s Odyssey, translation by T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)

~ Steven Pressfield

I thank you, God, who lives always, and Who, as i awaken, has in mercy returned my soul to me; we can ever trust in you.

~ Priscilla Warner

Just as the expansion and contraction of our lungs in necessary for the continuance of our physical life, so regular fellowship with God in prayer is essential to our spiritual well-being. Without prayer our spiritual lives will shrivel up and return to an infantile state.

~ Paul Tautges

Do not keep control over household affairs. The one who keeps control has to wander around. The unusable money [torn notes, ruined coins] are offered as homage in prayer rituals! ‘Live’ as a ‘friend’ with the ‘wife’. You are her ‘friend’ and she is your ‘friend’.

~ Dada Bhagwan

May God sanctify every soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Last night, I spoke to God.I told Him my plans. He started to cry.I thought I was great to move The Greatest to tears.He said that He was crying only becausemy plans were very differentthan His plans for me.

~ Kamand Kojouri

We ought to be silent and listen to the voice of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are sustained by spiritual fire.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

If we wish for peace, we must pray for one another.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace for thyself is the peace for thy neighbour which begins with a prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Peace starts with a prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Is there any peace without a prayer?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pray for the peace of the world.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Let every human heart be open at spark of the light.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer will never do our work for us, what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.

~ William Barclay

The two ideas, justice and vocation, are inseparable.... It is by way of the principle and practice of vocation that sanctity and reverence enter into the human economy. It was thus possible for traditional cultures to conceive that to work is to pray. (pg. 258, The Idea of a Local Economy)

~ Wendell Berry

Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish.

~ E.m. Bounds

Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

~ Andrew Murray

O God give me enough grace for my daily work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.

~ John Kramer

That is what a well-guarded prayer life can reveal about us, that our trust is not in ourselves but in seeking God's strength for what we do. Prayer is not a substitute for action, but prayer undergirds action with the strength that makes the difference.

~ Ravi Zacharias

I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the same particles of air that made songs in the throats of hermit thrushes and gave voices to humpback whales, the same particles of air that lifted the wings of bald eagles and buzzed in the flight of hummingbirds, the same particles of air that rushed over the sea in storms, whirled in high mountain snows, whistled across the poles, and whispered through lush equatorial gardens…air that has passed continually through life on earth. I breathe it in, pass it on, share it in equal measure with billions of other living things, endlessly, infinitely.

~ Richard Nelson

Or I would be the rain itself, wreathing over the island, mingling in the quiet of moist places, filling its pores with its saturated breaths. And I would be the wind, whispering through the tangled woods, running airy fingers over the island’s face, tingling in the chill of concealed places, sighing secrets in the dawn. And I would be the light, flinging over the island, covering it with flash and shadow, shining on rocks and pools, softening to a touch in the glow of dusk. If I were the rain and wind and light, I would encircle the island like the sky surrounding earth, flood through it like a heart driven pulse, shine from inside it like a star in flames, burn away to blackness in the closed eyes of its night. There are so many ways I could love this island, if I were the rain.

~ Richard Nelson

Thinking well of others, praying for them may or may not change them, but you will, for sure, experience peace and love.

~ Latika Teotia

If you desire peace, begin to pray.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I witness that I’m out of alignment with my power. I choose to see peace instead of this.

~ Gabrielle Bernstein

But prayer and meditation aren't only in the realm of religion. I'd say neither is God, for that matter, brother Matt. What it's about is finding a peaceful center, even when we think that life is totally whack!

~ Daniel D. Maurer

Intercede for all souls.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Believe God for something today. Prayer is the key to connecting with God and allowing Him to speak to your spirit. Open your heart and free your mind.

~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana

May every soul find the privilege of repentance and grace of forgiveness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God bless all people.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Praying for the people that hurt you may not change them, but it will change you.

~ Shannon L. Alder

May every sunrise hold more promise and every sunset hold more peace...

~ Umair Siddiqui

We must give each other the chance to change.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Oh Dear! The only time I want to love you is today, tomorrow, and forever.

~ Debasish Mridha

Oh my dear! No matter where you are, I will be with you either in person or in my heart.

~ Debasish Mridha

My prayer for you is simple. May the power of love be with you. May kindness adorn your heart, and may simplicity find a peaceful place in your thoughts and actions.

~ Debasish Mridha