Prayer Quotes

God has more powerful aways to show Himself than any human postulate.And yet, a postulate is the highest form of prayer.

~ Robin Sacredfire

Our immediate temptation will be to ask for specific solutions to specific problems and for the ability to help other people as we have already thought they should be helped. In that case we are asking God to do it our way.

~ Bill W.

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

~ Alfred

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

~ Bill W.

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.

~ Os Guinness

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

~ Marianne Williamson

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.

~ Samuel Butler

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

~ Jon Meacham

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition.

~ Edward Mckendree Bounds

Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.

~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

~ Iyanla Vanzant

I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.

~ Mary Szybist

In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.

~ Chris Riddell

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

~ Myles Munroe

Work is a prayer. And I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

~ Joseph Murray

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

~ Muhammad Iqbal

The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

~ Michele Bachmann

Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

~ Ellen G. White

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

~ Lou Holtz

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

~ Franz Kafka

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

~ Madame De Stael

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

~ Debra Winger

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

~ Terry Pratchett

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

~ David Wilkerson

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

~ Sean Durkin

Our families should gather for family prayer morning and night.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.

~ Joe Murray

The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.

~ Catherine Hicks

True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.

~ Mary Baker Eddy

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

~ E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

~ Philip James Bailey

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

~ Jane Elliot

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

~ Ellen G. White

'Kol Nidrei' is probably the most important prayer in the Jewish religion. It comes on the evening of Yom Kippur. There are so many different renditions of it.

~ Itzhak Perlman

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

~ Arthur Wellesley

All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

~ Nat Turner