Prayer Quotes

I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; f...

Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence ...

When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It ...

The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time...

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are un...

Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a...

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half a...

It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled w...

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may no...

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those w...

The most blessed result of prayer would be to rise thinking "But I never knew before. I never dreame...

You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism w...

As long as he retains externally the habits of a Christian he can still be made to think of himself ...

In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from H...

If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. ... Choose science.

Poem from Rev. Jim Cotter, as listed on the opening pages of “Anatomy of the Spirit” by Caroline Mys...

Forgiveness is a mystical act, not a reasonable one.

The man who says his prayers in the evening is a captain posting his sentries. After that he can sl...

God bless us, every one!

Second: them poor things well out o' this, and never no more will I interfere with Mrs. Cruncher's f...

I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is goi...

We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to...

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim...

To God your every Want In instant Prayer display Pray always Pray and never faint Pray without ...

In Fellowship alone To God with Faith draw near Approach His Courts besiege His Throne With all...

Divine justice pursued its course; disasters came thick on me: I was forced to pass through the vall...

As for the prayers, I suppose they can’t hurt. I’ve never found much good in them, I’ll confess that...

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays h...

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks...

For I prophecy that men will learn the use of their knees.For every thing that can be done in that p...

Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a h...

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

I just remembered a time when to warm up my spirit I prayed: movement is spirit. Prayer was a means ...

Versifying left her cold. Poems were too close to prayer, rousing regrettable passions. Waiting for ...

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

The simplest definition of prayer is communicating with God. That's it. Did you miss it? Let me say ...

Although we're made right with God by faith, and not by works, the effectiveness of our prayers is o...

Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.

Our failure to hear His voice when we want to is due to the fact that we do not in general want to h...

Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful bu...

(God's) nature, identity, and overarching purposes are no doubt unchanging. But his intentions with ...

God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

My parents didn't raise me to ask God for blessings or benefits. For guidance, yes. For the strength...

He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

Today I want to belong. I want to feel safe and at home. I want to be aware of what it is like simpl...

Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.

Symptoms of chronic stress are feelings of fragmentation and of chasing after time - of not being ab...

If we are to pray aright perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not ...

Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrou...

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and f...

Here all fear of one another, all timidity about praying freely in one's own words in the presence o...

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to s...

Lord, whatsoever this day may bring, Thy name be praised. Be gracious unto me and help me. Grant me ...

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ then we pray correctly.

As far as we are concerned, there is no dislike, no personal tension, no disunity or strife that can...

Where a people prays, there is the hurch; and where the church is; there is never loneliness.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it co...

Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a...

We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. ...

The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the moo...

The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself unde...

Through the medium of prayer we go to our enemy, stand by his side, and plead for him to God.

True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, howev...

The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general ado...

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He ex...

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face ...

This is what I found out about religion: It gives you courage to make decisions you must make in a c...

Spread out your petition before God and then say "Thy will not mine be done." The sweetest lesso...

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone...

If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

may I be I is the only prayer

i thank You God for most this amazingday: for the leaping greenly spirits of treesand a blue true dr...

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elev...

Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?' someone asked the chaplain. No, I look at the senators and ...

We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing beca...

Why do you pray?" he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? W...

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face. ...

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as ...

Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him wit...

... most of my prayers are expressions of sheer gratitude for the fullness of my contentment.

But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of i...

Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of ...

Though smooth be the heartless prayer no ear in heaven will mind it And the finest phrase falls de...

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

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adv...

Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to wear...

It is vain to ask of the gods what man is capable of supplying for himself.

I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Wate...

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand th...

Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nad...

Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit...

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to ...

I'll pray for you.""That's very kind of you.""I can't spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a dec...