Prayer Quotes

Prayer is inward communication with yourself, action is outward conversation with God.

~ Steve Maraboli

Since God exists outside of time, He also has all of the time He needs to personally act in each of our lives. There is never a rush to the next meeting or the next message.

~ Dillon Burroughs

The knowledge of our union with Christ...gives us confidence in prayer. It was when Jesus had begun to expound the closeness of this union that he also began to introduce the disciples to the true heart of prayer. If Christ abides in us and we abide in him, as his word dwells in us, and we pray in his name, that God hears us (Jn 15:4-7). But all of these expressions are simply extensions of the one fundamental idea: If I am united to Christ, then all that is his is mine. So long as my heart, will and mind are one with Christ's in his word, I can approach God with the humble confidence that my prayers will be heard and answered.

~ Sinclair B. Ferguson

When I look back, I realize I was praying for something God had already given me.

~ Steve Maraboli

Prayers should be for preventing war, not fighting it.

~ @Hg47

The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.

~ Answers To Prayer

Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.

~ Jonathon Acuff

Pray FOR positive outcomes, never ON perceived dilemmas

~ T.f. Hodge

In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out perceived flaws in God's art.

~ Steve Maraboli

We dare not forget the power of prayer.

~ Dillon Burroughs

O Lord, I have been talking to the people;Thought's wheels have round me whirled a fiery zoneAnd the recoil of my word's airy rippleMy heart unheedful has puffed up and blown.Therefore I cast myself before thee prone:Lay cool hands on my burning brain and press From my weak heart the swelling emptiness.

~ George Macdonald

What's to rationalize? You mean you shouldn't pray if you haven't got your s--t together? This is another fairly common misconception of faith, which is that people who go to church, or people who pray, or people who talk about their religion must be, somehow more pious or ethically rigorous or have more morally cleansed lifestyle. The high correlation is supposed to be between faith and your search, the depth of your search, your willingness to try, your willingness to admit error, your hope and belief in the ultimate meaning and value of that search.' - Timothy Shriver

~ J. Randy Taraborrelli

When we pray for God to illumine our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think, to be able to navigate my life at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life. Amen.

~ Marianne Williamson

When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.

~ Kristen Heitzmann

Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.

~ Teresa Of Ávila

You cannot always depend on prayers to be answered the way you want them answered but you can always depend on God. God, the loving Father often denies us those things which in the end would prove harmful to us. Every boy wants a revolver at age four, and no father yet has ever granted that request. Why should we think God is less wise? Someday we will thank God not only for what He gave us, but also for that which He refused.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

No soul ever fell away from God without giving up prayer. Prayer is that which establishes contact with Divine Power and opens the invisible resources of heaven. However dark the way, when we pray, temptation can never master us. The first step downward in the average soul is the giving up of the practice of prayer, the breaking of the circuit with divinity, and the proclamation of one’s owns self sufficiency.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.

~ Paul E. Miller

We don't know how bad we are until we try to be good. Nothing exposes our selfishness and spiritual pwerlessness like prayer.

~ Paul E. Miller

The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the mood for it, he would not get very far. In religion, as in art and science, along with the times of high excitement, there are times of sober work and practice. We must practice our communion with God, otherwise we will not find the right tone, the right word, the right language, when God surprises us with his presence.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made 'realizations' the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying to produce those states of mind by 'maistry'.

~ C.s. Lewis

The kingdom comes when Jesus becomes king of your life. But it has to be your life.

~ Paul E. Miller

Prayer is a way, a road we build for love to walk into our lives.

~ Summer Kinard

…I interviewed ordinary people about prayer. Typically, the results went like this: Is Prayer important to you? Oh, yes. How often to you pray? Every day. Approximately how long? Five minutes – well, maybe seven. Do you sense the presence of God when you pray? Occasionally, not often. Many of those I talked to experienced prayer more as a burden than as a pleasure. They regarded it as important, even paramount, and felt guilty about their failure, blaming themselves. Does this sound familiar? (pp. 14/Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?)

~ Philip Yancey

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.

~ Paul E. Miller

Continual prayer is a lifestyle.~R. Alan Woods [2013]

~ R. Alan Woods

Prayer is a jouney, a path that is created only by walking it. It creates and reveals oneself in the process.

~ Edward Farrell

...Jesus opens his arms to his needy children and says, Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest(Matthew 11:28, NASB). The criteria for coming to Jesus is weariness. Come overwhelmed with life. Come with you wandering mind. Come messy.

~ Paul E. Miller

When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of holiness, a sense of wholeness, to what we do and who we are. Like the Eucharistic feast that nourishes our heart and soul, every meal we eat with mindfulness[,] each bite we take with gratitude, has the power to transform us inside and out, for all time.

~ Mary Deturris Poust

When we link our eating and our prayer and begin to see food as part of a much bigger picture, rather than the focal point of our entire lives, we reshape the way we think, the way we act, and the way we interact.

~ Mary Deturris Poust

Even if you can’t be totally mindful at every meal, if you can say a blessing, silently if necessary, or offer up a prayer for someone, something beyond yourself and your food, the prayer helps to transform eating into something that affects not only our hunger at that moment but the greater world.

~ Mary Deturris Poust

Taken slowly, or mindfully, even eating an orange or a bowl of soup, or a small piece of dark chocolate for that matter, can take on the flavor or prayer.

~ Mary Deturris Poust

Not only did Jesus purposefully enter the wilderness on a regular basis but historically, God seems to prefer meeting with man in these desert regions.

~ Amy Layne Litzelman

from Love Under a Dark Sky: In the universe vastWe share a simple feastAmong creatures equally earthbound.Let us raise our hearts in gratitude,Our eyes in expectationOf a greater supper yetIn heavenly realms.

~ Shellie Foltz

Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

~ Bob Goff

The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14

~ Stan Lee

Or you might shout at the top of your lungs or whisper into your sleeve, I hate you, God. That is a prayer too, because it is real, it is truth, and maybe it is the first sincere thought you've had in months.

~ Anne Lamott

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

~ Eric Metaxas

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

~ Oswald Chambers