Prayer Quotes

The first help to prayer is our only Mediator and Advocate, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, 1 John 2:2. He is pleading our cause before God, when we are hardly able to express what we want; who is therefore called the Word of the Father, because God, by him, has discovered his will to us; as he is also called 'the Mediator,' because he solicits our cause before God. When Moses complained that he was of slow speech, and a slow tongue, that so he might avoid carrying the commanded message to Pharaoh, God tells him, 'Aaron thy brother can speak well, he shall be to thee instead of a mouth.' Se we also, when we shall pray, are dull, and slow of speech, and therefore must fly to Christ, our heavenly Aaron, who is to us instead of a mouth. Therefore Christ commands us to pray in his name, who is our eternal High-priest, 'having an everlasting priesthood,' (Heb. 7:24,) 'interceding for us,' (Rom. 8:34,) 'in whom we have boldness,' and access with confidence by the faith of him,' Eph. 3:12.

~ Johann Arndt

TeachingOne hour's teaching is better than a whole night of prayer.

~ Idries Shah

Life is fragile,handle with prayer.

~ Amanda Hudson

Pray for me and I am blessed today, teach me to pray and I will see you in heaven

~ Farid F. Ibrahim

Prayer is our voice, intuition is God’s answer.

~ Donald L. Hicks

It is possible for a Christian to be perfectly orthodox and yet to be defeated, and to be living a defeated and a useless life.

~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Heavenly Father, your ears are ever open to our prayers.Save us now!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life.

~ Jim George

A prayer without faith is absolutely meaningless.

~ Hafiz

Prayer is the secret weapon that restores your trust in God.

~ Jim George

I know we sort of said goodbye, but I don’t have anyone else to tell this to and I’m going to burst with it. You know EBB’s verse: God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed For in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it. –

~ Mary Jane Hathaway

He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands

~ Ellis Peters

. “Don’t be a stranger. And pray about that petition you filed.” “Mama,” Paul groaned. That was the Christian way of saying “I know you’re wrong but you won’t take my word for it, so God will have to explain it to you.

~ Mary Jane Hathaway

Dear Gods of Heaven and Earth.The universe has began, without a beginning. Even if it's divided into Heaven, Earth, and Man, the essence is the same. Although Heaven, Earth, and Man are different in form, they have the same nature. Although Heaven is full of spirits, because there is no box to contain it, fom heaven came Man. When the three absolutes move in harmony, energy is created, covering all the material and the spirit for the Man. All the use of all creation may change, the basic mind is originally the bright light. Shine on Man with respect for it, Man is the best of the universe.

~ Auliq Ice

Miracles have a higher percentage of being permanent than magical solutions.

~ Nike Thaddeus

Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.

~ Mary Allsebrook

I find that when I get casual in my relationships with divinity and when it seems that no divine ear is listening and no divine voice is speaking, that I am far, far away. If I immerse myself in the scriptures the distance narrows and the spirituality returns. I find myself loving more intensely those whom I must love with all my heart and mind and strength, and loving them more, I find it easier to abide their counsel.

~ Spencer W. Kimball

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

~ K.p. Yohannan

Doubt treats God’s Word as human advice—but we should see doubt as a reminder of our need to pray.

~ Jim George

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

~ Max Lucado

There were places you didn't want to walk, precautions you took that had to do with locks on windows and doors, drawing the curtains, leaving on lights. These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.

~ Margaret Atwood

Destructive behavior—or simply behavior that constantly annoys your spouse to the point of desperation—is not right, and there will always be a serious consequence for it in your marriage and personal life. But every attempt you make to rid yourself of that behavior and do what’s right will bring reward.Today, ask God to help break any bad habits that you or your spouse may have.

~ Stormie Omartian

Your own forefathers killed to have and hold the land where you were born, and sought to extinguish the memories and souls of those that were slain. What of those who prayed in the mountains of Appalachia for thousands of years? That to me is an abomination, although it is the way of men.

~ Bruce Lee Bond

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

~ Richard J. Foster

As prayer warriors, we must remember that no matter how hopeless a situation may appear to us, God gives us power in prayer to do something about it. We may be overwhelmed by it, but God isn’t. We may not see a way out, but God can. Because of Him, we can make a difference!

~ Stormie Omartian

The decision was too important to make lightly without more prayer.

~ Jody Hedlund

A lot of us pray as if prayer is really twisting the arm of God or convincing God to do something. We think by saying more words we’ll talk God into it. We think, “If I say it one more time, God will agree with me.” That very attitude is an alienating attitude. It keeps us in the role of doing it “right” or often enough to convince an unready or unwilling God. Wrong, wrong, wrong!19 minutes ago

~ Richard Rohr

Meditation sends us into our ordinary world with greater perspective and balance.

~ Richard J. Foster

There’s so much to be grateful for, and praising God for giving you His Spirit is a great place to begin.Even if you don’t think you have much to be grateful for right now, know that you can always praise God for the Holy Spirit’s presence in your life!

~ Stormie Omartian

Solace of Silencesurreal synapsesof a melancholy dronea dream per chanceshe dared not be alone...

~ Muse

Prayer Against the DarknessShekhinaPray for us now bound with scripture and shielded with shawlArmed with passion and loving carePray for us now against suffering, turmoil, and injusticePray for us now against the chaos of the dark.

~ Leonard Nimoy

Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence of others may be put aside where in all simplicity and soberness the common, brotherly prayer is lifted to God by one of the brethren. But likewise all comment and criticism must cease whenever words of prayer howsoever halting are offered in the name of Jesus Christ. It is in fact the most normal thing in the common Christian life to pray together.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

My ma always told me that when I found things were too hard to figure out, I could probably bet that I hadn't prayed on it first.

~ Tracie Peterson

Lord, today I ask for a renewed sense of purpose in my smaller daily choices, knowing that how I spend each moment is how I live my life. Every choice matters.

~ Stormie Omartian

Ask Jesus to live in you & fill you with His Holy Spirit, & thank Him that you’re now God’s child

~ Stormie Omartian

The truly Christian imagination never lets Jesus Christ out of her sight.

~ Richard J. Foster

Thomas Merton writes that if we have meditated on the events of the Passion but have not meditated on Dachau and Auschwitz, our perception of God at work in present times is incomplete.

~ Richard J. Foster

Prayer is the expression of your heart’s sincere desires poured out to God.

~ Elizabeth George

My prayer; Lord,open my eyes to see good visions.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Finally, Christians were accused of being subversive, for they refused to worship the emperor and thus destroyed the very fiber of society. The apologists answered that it was true that they refused to worship the emperor or any other creature, but that in spite of this they were loyal subjects of the empire. What the emperor needs—they said—is not to be worshiped, but to be served; and those who serve him best are those who pray for him and for the empire to the only true God.

~ Justo L. González