Prayer Quotes

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there's nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray before we do anything at all.Most of us would prefer, however, to spend our time doing something that will get immediate results. We don't want to wait for God to resolve matters in His good time because His idea of 'good time' is seldom in sync with ours.

~ Oswald Chambers

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

~ Mother Teresa

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

~ Mother Teresa

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

~ Mark Twain

Dear Jesus, do something.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.

~ Tennessee Williams

Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

~ Terry Pratchett

Lord, Give me the strength not to bitch slap this woman.

~ J.d. Robb

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

~ Frederick Douglass

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

~ Margaret Atwood

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks.

~ Thomas Goodwin

Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The Ego is a veil between humans and God’.”“In prayer all are equal.

~ Jalaluddin Rumi

Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?

~ Lily Tomlin

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world', whispered Anne softly.

~ L.m. Montgomery

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and expectations. I will concentrate on being a God-pleaser and not a self-pleaser or man-pleaser. The rest I leave in Your hands lord. Grant me favor with You and with men and continue transforming me into the image of Your dear Son. Thank You Lord.

~ Joyce Meyer

God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow,Teach me how to wait on You when my way I do not know.Teach me sweet forbearance when things do not go rightSo I remain unruffled when others grow uptight.Teach me how to quiet my racing, rising heartSo I might hear the answer You are trying to impart.Teach me to let go, dear God, and pray undisturbed untilMy heart is filled with inner peace and I learn to know your will.

~ Helen Steiner Rice

He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

~ Brother Lawrence

God bless us, every one!

~ Charles Dickens

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use -- men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men -- men of prayer.

~ E.m. Bounds

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today.

~ Jan Karon

the real work of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father,Until it be according unto mine?But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, ratherI pray Thee blend my human will with Thine.I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing,I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire—See in my quiet places, wishes thronging—Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire.

~ Amy Carmichael

If you want to protect me, prayer is just as powerful a weapon as that gun you carry.

~ Karen Witemeyer

Pounce had it easier than any of us. No one noticed a black cat in the street. He stopped here and there to sniff aught of interest. Wherever our Rat stopped, Pounce was there, close enough to see up the Rat's nose. I was so proud. Now there was a proper god, making himself useful!Since my thought might be deemed blasphemy, I said silent prayers to the Goddess and to Mithros. I begged forgiveness and asked them not to misunderstand. Since I wasn't blasted where I stood, I guess they forgave me, or they hadn't heard my blasphemy.

~ Tamora Pierce

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

~ Joseph Smith Jr.

Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

~ Jodi Picoult

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

~ Julia Cameron

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

~ Andrew Murray

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me.

~ Luci Swindoll

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person.

~ Philip Yancey

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

~ Lois Mcmaster Bujold

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

~ Paulo Coelho

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.

~ Joseph Murphy

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?

~ John Wooden

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

~ Martin Luther