Prayer Quotes

Sometimes I need a place to ask myself impossible questions.

~ Davis Bunn

Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.

~ Donna Pyle

God, I want to give You every minute of this year. I shall try to keep You in mind every moment of my waking hours....I shall try to let You be the speaker and direct every word. I shall try to let You direct my acts. I shall try to learn Your language.

~ Frank C. Laubach

God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

~ Davis Bunn

Ain't the best prayin' jest bein' with God and talkin' a while, like He's a good friend, stead a-like he runs a store and you've come in a-hopin' to git a bargain?

~ Olive Ann Burns

Even if there were no ear for them but the void, our prayers would still be the only things that sanctify our existence.

~ William Barrett

Prayers likewise your positive thoughts can be based on gratitude and love.

~ Raphael Zernoff

God loves a prayer of action.

~ Bryant Mcgill

God's favorite type of prayer is action.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Your positive thoughts are both the prayer, and the answer to your prayer.

~ Bryant Mcgill

God listens and He responds. Sometimes His reply could be “I’m with you. Do not be afraid.” Sadly, many times we withdrew long before receiving the blessing He has for us, what He wants to show us; or we get disappointed because we don’t recognize His answer for not being what we expected.

~ Yilda B. Rivera

God has always heard and answered the prayers of all who cry on Him and call His name.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.

~ Jacques Ellul

I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him with every line about how the world is hard and unfair sometimes, but that it's all OK beacuse he is so loved. He is surrounded by souls who would do anything to help him. And not only that- he has wisdom and patience of his own, buried deep inside his being, which will only reveal themselves over time and will always carry him through any trial. He is a gift from God to all of us.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

As I bathe myselfI pray with all beingsthat we can purify body and mindand clean ourselves inside and out.

~ Ruth Ozeki

Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead. A Passion Most Pure

~ Lessman

Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead.

~ Lessman

What we call the Lord's prayer is actually the Disciple's Prayer because It says Forgive us our trespasses and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah

~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

Pray, and let God worry.

~ Martin Luther

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

~ Jonathan Edwards

We do not build the kingdom of God on earth by our own efforts (however assisted by grace); the most we can do through genuine prayer, is to make as much room as possible, in ourselves and in the world, for the kingdom of God, so that its energies can go to work. All that we can show our contemporaries of the reality of God springs from contemplation: Jesus Christ, the Church, our own selves.

~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.

~ Flannery O'connor

Lucien had never prayed before, never imagined that there might be a deity listening who would be interested in what he had to say, so his supplication skills were a tad rusty.But now Lucien prayed.Please don’t take her from me just as I’ve found her. If you do, I’ll come for your ass.Any gods listening would do well to heed him. Lucien never made a promise that he couldn’t keep.

~ Aimee Roseland

One who prays ceaselessly is one who combines prayer with work and work with prayer.

~ Origen

But never has the Call been so clearAs now, when death’s cool handEases my spirit from my fevered body--And I answer the Call of the Master—The Call to new Heights.

~ Jessica Coupé

When I write that my own situation in those months of pain and decision can be described as prayer, I do not only recall that during that time I sometimes read the Psalms and they became my psalms, or that, as I have also mentioned, I occasionally cried “Jesus” and that name was my prayer, but I mean that I also at times would shout “Fuck!” and that was no obscenity, but a most earnest prayerful utterance.In the final analysis, no matter what the vocabulary of prayer, or where muteness displaces words in prayer, the content—what is communicated by a person in the world before God—in prayer is in each and every circumstance the same and it can be put plainly in one word: Help!That is the word of Gethsemane’s prayer; that is the word of the Lord’s Prayer; that is the prayer when Christ repeats the Twenty-second Psalm from the cross.It is the prayer of Christ interceding for all people, and it is the prayer of a human creature acknowledging God’s vocation in affirming the life which God has called into being.

~ William Stringfellow

Satan is a relentless tormenter; you have to be a relentless Scripture Confessor until satan flees.- Tytenisha, Confessions of a Praying Woman

~ Tytenisha L. Osgood

We do not pray to inform God of our needs, because He knows what we need before we ask.What is prayer like for you?Is it a religious ritual that you perform out of habit?Is it a spiritual discipline that you practice because you want to be the best Christian you possibly can be?Is it a mechanism by which you can bring your “shopping list” to God in order to have your needs met?Or are you running to meet your Lover, to commune with Him, hungering to find your joy in Him, and to be fulfilled in His presence?

~ Bill Mills

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants, otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

~ Bryan Chapell

It’s fairly simple. When can we pray? All the time. When should we praise God? Whenever we pray.

~ David Jeremiah

Prayer is to the soul what oxygen is to the heart life

~ Lisa C. Miller

We are not to mimic witches spicing their caldrons with a little eye of newt and tail of squirrel when we add Jesus’ name to our prayers.

~ Bryan Chapell

I'm praying about it. He knows what I want.

~ Regina Jennings

It takes a spiritual soldier to maintain salvation.

~ Cyc Jouzy

As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child’s situation.

~ Elizabeth George

The moment you start to fear God is the moment demons begin to fear you.

~ Cyc Jouzy

i thank You God for most this amazingday: for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dream of sky; and for everythingwhich is natural which is infinite which is yes(i who have died am alive again today,and this is the sun's birthday; this is the birthday of life and of love and wings: and of the gaygreat happening illimitably earth)how should tasting touching hearing seeingbreathing any---lifted from the noof all nothing---human merely beingdoubt unimaginably You?(now the ears of my ears awake andnow the eyes of my eyes are opened)

~ E.e. Cummings

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

~ Rich Mullins

Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer doesn’t actually affect the external world. Not only is it ineffective, but it is also a very narcissistic practice… why would a 'God' change its 'Divine Plan' to accommodate any person’s wishes?

~ David G. Mcafee

Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

~ William Gurnall