Prayer Quotes

Being a Christian doesn't mean I don't get stressed or upset when training doesn't go well. But even if I have those reactions, I think, 'I should pray about this.'

The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer.

As the day comes to a close and we review what we have tried to do, again there should be that sense of committing everything to God.

Prayer only works when the channels are open.

Pray according to faith, not circumstances.

A moment of prayerful reflection can prevent a lifetime of bitter regret.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

Prayer puts God's work in his hands-and keeps it there.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.

Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.

- Every time someone cries out in prayer and I can't answer, I feel guilty about not being God. - That doesn't sound good. - I understand that I have a problem, and I know what I need to do to solve it, all right? I'm working on it. Of course, Harry hadn't said what the solution was. The solution, obviously, was to hurry up and become God.

The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

There's no prayer like desire.

By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

Your tears are my prayers.

Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

Should it concern us that the bible never calls us to ask Jesus into our hearts. Should it concern us that the bible never mentions such a superstitious sinners prayer and yet that is exactly what we have sold to so many as salvation.

I'm Roman Catholic and I believe very strongly in the power of prayer.

Most people find it extremely difficult - if not impossible - to focus in prayer.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.

It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.

Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.

Prayer meetings are the throbbing machinery of the church.

I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.

Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.

Without faith there can be no prayer, no matter how great our helplessness may be. Helplessness united with faith produces prayer.

Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

The battle of prayer is against two things in the earthlies: wandering thoughts and lack of intimacy with God's character as revealed in His word. Neither can be cured at once, but they can be cured by discipline.

The entire day receives order and discipline when it acquires unity. This unity must be sought and found in morning prayer. The morning prayer determines the day.

Don't imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

The central significance of prayer is not in the things that happen as results, but in the deepening intimacy and unhurried communion with God at His central throne of control in order to discover a sense of God's need in order to call on God's help to meet that need.

All my weak days have a common cause - I have neglected communion with God through my neglect of the Scriptures & prayer. When will I learn?

If you have ever prayed in the dawn you will ask yourself why you were so foolish as not to do it always: it is difficult to get into communion with God in the midst of the hurly-burly of the day.

Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit.

The prevailing idea seems to be, that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

It is the habit of faith, when she is praying, to use pleas. Mere prayer sayers, who do not pray at all, forget to argue with God; but those who prevail bring forth their reasons and their strong arguments

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

Are you weak? Weary? Confused? Troubled? Pressured? How is your relationship with God? Is it held in its place of priority? I believe the greater the pressure, the greater your need for time alone with Him.

The men that will change the colleges and seminaries here represented are the men that will spend the most time alone with God... It takes time for the fires to burn. It takes time for God to draw near and for us to know that He is there. It takes time to assimilate His truth.

I trust there are none here present, who profess to be followers of Christ who do not also practice prayer in their families. We may have no positive commandment for it, but we believe that it is so much in accord with the genius and spirit of the gospel, and that it is so commended by the example of the saints, that the neglect thereof is a strange inconsistency.