Prayer Quotes

Prayer Quote of the day

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha or a Sultan who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.

The fewer the words the better the prayer.

The Lord is my shepherdI shall not want him for longHe maketh me to lie down in green pasturesand there are no green pasturesHe leadeth me beside still watersand still waters run deep

In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust' but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par.

Bear up the hands that hang down by faith and prayer support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein and mercy will come down.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.

In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation and there must be a vent.

We do pray for mercy and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general for God knows best what is good for us.

May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to pr

Prayer does not change God but it changes him who prays.

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Grant that we may not so much seek to be understood as to understand.

Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying, but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic?

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

We should seek not so much to pray but to become prayer.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

God bless us, every one!

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

Help me give up my addiction to Hope.

Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.

Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied it is the most potent instrument of action.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

The less I pray the harder it gets the more I pray the better it goes.

As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

Happiness is activity of soul.

Prayer indeed is good but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

Grant us grace Almighty Father so to pray as to deserve to be heard.

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.

He that will learn to pray let him to sea.

Work as if you were to live one hundred years pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree.[Lincoln's maxim and philosophy]