Prayer Quotes

The great purpose of prayer is not getting things from God but getting God.

~ David Mathis

Let thy pilgrimage be a prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

~ C.s. Lewis

Heavenly Father,' Kevin says, 'we thank you for this beautiful day. For these beautiful children. For this food we're about to eat. Bless it to our bodies. Let it strengthen us to do your will and be your light in the world. Amen.

~ Christy Wilson Beam

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

~ Jen Hatmaker

The fact that you're a good listener doesn't mean pray to be mute.Speak to your situations.

~ Faithful Akpaloo

Prayer illuminate the path.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Devotees of these two spiritual paths of experience—oneness and goodness—have been at odds for centuries. Proponents of the oneness path have insisted that the goal of spirituality is to reconnect with everlasting eternity. They yearn to taste the quintessence of their being, to transcend time and space, to be unified with the one. In the other camp, advocates of the goodness path have traditionally seen stark choices in the world. They believe we should choose love, compassion, beauty, truth, and altruism over hatred, fear, anger, judgment, and other opposites of goodness. To them, there are constructive forces in the world that are being challenged by destructive ones. Their goal has been to stand their ground and choose to be good above all else. Even with those apparent differences, both paths have found homes within each of the world’s religions. As noted earlier, Hinduism offers the oneness path of Yoga, Judaism offers Kabbalah, Islam offers Sufism, Christianity offers Mysticism, and so on. Whatever the arrangement, the two paths have historically found ways to co-exist.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

When we find ourselves praying for something that we want, perhaps more than anything we've ever wanted before, can we honestly pray, 'Lord, do what will bring you the most glory?

~ Paul Tautges

What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.

~ Steve Goodier

Instead of hating someone, pray for that person. Don't forget to pray for yourself as well, that you may learn how to let go and forgive.

~ Germany Kent

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own peace of mind. I can only have for myself what I am willing to wish for you.

~ Marianne Williamson

If you wait, you can have what you want

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Church is not merely a hospital or a halfway house to check in and out for weekend visits.

~ Deborrah K. Ogans

Let us give thanks for our shadowsfor they are there in the first placebecause of the presence of light.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Our [theological] study informs our prayers, and our prayers enliven our study. We cannot choose between prayer and study; faithful theology requires prayerful study.

~ Kelly Kapic

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life of the saint. Beware of anything that stops the offering up of prayer.

~ Oswald Chambers

If every day you were to walk past the same individual and ignore him, never smiling or saying hello or returning any kind gesture he extended toward you, would you expect that same individual to readily respond if suddenly you were to implore his helping hand? Then don’t ignore God. Say ‘hello’ now and then.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

She got up from the bed, knelt beside the bed, and put her forehead down on the covers. She was not practiced at prayer anymore. The only word that came to mind was please.

~ Nancy Horan

Dear God, I don’t ask that my life be perfect but that you allow the myriad of emotions in my life to end each day with calmness. May I sleep peacefully to do your work again by morning light. I ask for these things in Jesus’s name, amen.

~ Ron Baratono

Life is but a prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

And then I did the best thing I knew to do with the strange concoction of sadness and hope brewing inside me. I prayed. I prayed for the people whose initials were on those slivers. Not just for those people, but for the cave people before them and the robot people after them. For real orphans. For all the people who have lost shoes in the road. For kids whose parents play war. For Toodie Bleu Skies and Toodi Bleu Nordenhauer, for M. B. McClean and Douglas Nordenhauer. And all the people who need to find the magic in Make Believe. That, I figured, just about covered the whole world.

~ Amber Mcree Turner

Praise begins a prayer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever comes into your heart and mind when you think about God is the most important thing about you.

~ A.w. Tozer

I want to drown in my tears,And my tears are my prayers.

~ Luffina Lourduraj

Your prayers for others and the universe make a difference!

~ Susan Barbara Apollon

The Archbishop cradled his right hand in his left. He hung his head in concentration. The goal was meditation, but I've never been quite sure where meditation ends and prayer begins, or where prayer ends and meditation begins. I have heard it said that prayer is when we speak to God, and meditation is when God answers.

~ Douglas Abrams

Hero,” said Machaon to his sister who was still muttering to her gods. “Please stop. Surely the gods would have heard you by now … let’s try not to annoy them.

~ Sulari Gentill

Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.

~ Abhijit Naskar

It had been a long fifteen years. So much had changed in both their lives. Both hearts somehow sadly hardened. “Let us just make it through,” Claire whispered her desperate plea. It was her only prayer, one she said over and over again. An almost cynical laugh erupted out of her as she turned one last time to say goodbye to her father’s tombstone. That was her prayer? That was all she could come up with to say to God? Then so be it.

~ Laura Aranda

Pray for others because others are selflessly praying for you as well.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

Pray as if you are fully aware that the intricate timing and rotation of every celestial entity in the universe—including the coming and going of innumerable, precious life forms—does not rest in your tiny, mortal hands.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Masturbating is no more sinful than praying or meditating.

~ Abhijit Naskar

Like a prayer, that was how her name sounded on his lips. She took his face in her hands, finding his eyes blazing, his breathing as ragged as her own

~ Sarah J. Maas

Begin your day, upon awakening, with prayers of gratitude, requests and affirmations that they are being answered—always ending with more gratitude.

~ Susan Barbara Apollon

Prayers can be whatever you wish them to be. They can be short or long requests, expressions of gratitude and affirmations that your requests are being honored.

~ Susan Barbara Apollon

One of the highest emotions is that of Gratitude… Wherever you are, offer the expression of your awareness of your blessings and how grateful you are for them.

~ Susan Barbara Apollon

Prayer is energy. Try to come from a higher, lighter vibration of gratitude and expectation, in place of worry and fear.

~ Susan Barbara Apollon

Healing is about making the choice to focus your thoughts on what feels energetically better at the level of your heart.

~ Susan Barbara Apollon

Your heart, mind and body—and all your sixty trillion cells—work as a team. When you carefully choose your thoughts and mental images, and focus on what feels comfortable and good for your heart, you shift to a higher level of vibration, which, in turn, bolsters your immune system.

~ Susan Barbara Apollon