Prayer Quotes

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

~ C.s. Lewis

May our effort, confidence and concern for others be the altar from which we pray for personal abundance.

~ Laura Teresa Marquez

Cause that's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

~ Kathryn Stockett

Love is the story and the prayer that matters the most.

~ Brian Doyle

never say amen in church if they'recapping off a prayer about you.

~ Exene Cervenka

Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

Dear Lynda Carter, Please be with me in my hour of need. Especially if I don't have to twirl around to get my powers.

~ Michael R. Underwood

Keep your prayer simple. Whatever confuses or complicates prayer is probably best forgotten.

~ Mark Link

Prayer is a moment of incarnation - God with us. God involved in the details of my life.

~ Paul E. Miller

I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, or such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no sense a vision: I believe it is called mystical theology. The soul is suspended in such a way that it seems to be completely outside itself. The will loves; the memory, I think, is almost lost; while the understanding, I believe, thought it is not lost, does not reason—I mean that it does not work, but is amazed at the extent of all it can understand; for God wills it to realize that it understands nothing of what His Majesty represents to it.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

~ Erwin W. Lutzer

Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation or release from his bondage. And the fourth will not ask for anything. He will just enjoy praying and praising his Lord. That is the highest form of prayer. (Beyond Word, 119)

~ Swami Satchidananda

Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are thine, into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught, for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us: Thou art our need; and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.

~ Kahlil Gibran

For those who have already experienced the grace of Almighty God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, prayer becomes the catalyst for fellowship with the Lord of our souls, redeemed by his blood. By tapping into the channel by which we commune with the One who calls his children “friends,” we can receive his strength in our weakness; his guidance in our steps; and his mercy when we stumble along life’s path.

~ Franklin Graham

Persephone is just a name for a spirit of beauty at a certain time in history. I'm sure we could argue a biblical place for her if it matters. Your wife has the name of that pagan goddess, but the fact remains that she's your mortal bride in the Year of Our Lord 1888- and she's Catholic, so pray for her, damn it, I don't care how confusing it is. And pray for us, to anyone. If the dead are about to flood Athens, divine goodwill couldn't hurt. Your prayers can be in Hindu, if you like. Now go home.

~ Leanna Renee Hieber

As a prayer popper, I stay in touch with God. I send lots of spiritual postcards. Little bits and bytes of adoration, supplication, and information attached prayer darts speed in God's direction all day long.

~ Sybil Macbeth

Prayer is not itself powerful, it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability.

~ Peter H. Davids

Prayer, to the patriarchs and prophets, was more than the recital of well-known and well-worn phrases. It was the outpouring of the heart. Beset by perils, persecutions, pain and privations, they naturally turned to God in their need, believing that He was able to redeem them out of their troubles.

~ Herbert Lockyer

I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.

~ John Piper

Forgive me,' the woman says. 'I think I've interrupted you in a private moment.''Well,' I reply, instead of yelling something to the effect of :'No kidding lady, I'm in the bathroom!''Were you praying?' she asks.'Sort of.''That's what I thought,' the woman says with a nod, 'which is why I spoke up. I like the idea of answering prayers,' she says. 'Plus, I figure I'm so old, I could have been God's babysitter.

~ Robin Epstein

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

~ Karl Barth

And the Bastard grant us... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. He will never talk well and with real success to men for God who has not learned well how to talk to God for men.

~ E.m. Bounds

God of the green pastures and the still waters, please don't help me. I want to do it by myself so that You'll know I've found something I can do for You ... I am David. Amen.

~ Anne Holm

You've been the rabbi here for thirty years and these guys who've never set foot here want to decide who should be rabbi or not. And to lead prayer in Hebrew for Jews who speak Arabic, they want you to write in French. So I say they're nuts.

~ Joann Sfar

Ask. Trust. Give thanks. Simple right?

~ Dawn Gluskin

Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I wanted my sons to know that, whatever kinds of prayers we utter, not matter how wretched, God hears them, even when we pray badly.

~ Wendy Murray

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

~ Terry Tempest Williams

Lord, help us root our feet to the earthAnd our eyes to the roadAnd always remember the fallen angelsWho, attempting to soar,Were seared instead by the sun and, wings melting,Came crashing back to the sea.Lord, help root my eyes to the earthAnd stay my eyes to the roadSo I may never st

~ Lauren Oliver

a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

Amen' is like the Send button on an email.

~ Steve Toltz

Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip the halter on. Just so, she surmises, sometimes God waits for us to turn our backs on what we desire most and to trust Him.

~ Joni Eareckson Tada

We get too comfortable with this orphanage universe, though. We sit in our pews, or behind our pulpits, knowing that our children watch Christian cartoons instead of slash films. We vote for the right candidates and know all the right worldview talking points. And we're content with the world we know, just adjusted a little for our identity as Christians. That's precisely why so many of us are so atrophied in our prayers, why our prayers rarely reach the level of groanings too deep for words (Rom 8:26). We are too numbed to be as frustrated as the Spirit is with the way things are.

~ Russell D. Moore

In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

~ Frederick Buechner

All stories are, in some form, prayers.

~ Brian Doyle

It came at last.'Dr. Graham, tell me,' she asked tremulously, 'do you believe that prayers - wicked unreasonable prayers - are granted?'He helped himself to another slice of bread-and-butter before answering. 'Well-' he said slowly, 'it seems hard to believe that every fool who has a voice to pray with and a brain to conceive idiotic requests should be permitted to interfere with the economy of the universe. As a rule, if people were long-sighted enough to foresee the result of their petitions, I fancy very few of us would venture to interfere.' (The Story of A Ghost)

~ Violet Hunt

I will not say, as the beggars at our door used to do, ‘I’ll never ask anything of Him again;’ but, on the contrary, ‘He shall hear oftener from me than ever,’ and I will love God the better, and love prayer the better, as long as I live.

~ Philip Henry

It was only at her prayers that she felt able to think calmly and clearly either of Prince Andrey or Anatole, with a sense that her feelings for them were as nothing compared with her feel of worship and awe of God.

~ Leo Tolstoy