Prayer Quotes

Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.

You can get more with a simple prayer and a Thompson sub-machinegun than you can with a simple prayer alone.

When you can't do nothing but pray-you've done a whole lot.

Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.

If you are ever inclined to pray for a missionary, do it at once, wherever you are.

So live for the kingdom of God. Seek to bring glory to Jesus Christ and the Lord will use you. It is my prayer, my constant and daily prayer, that God would keep me useable.

The most important thing a born again Christian can do is to pray.

The Sunday morning service shows how popular your church is. The evening services show how popular your pastor is. Your private prayer time shows you how popular God is!

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

Anything is a blessing which makes us pray.

The self-sufficient does not pray, the self-satisfied will not pray, the self-righteous cannot pray. No man is greater than his prayer life.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

You can set up an altar to God in your minds by means of prayer. And so it is fitting to pray at your trade, on a journey, standing at a counter or sitting at your handicraft.

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

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers

Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.

Prayer is not a painful effort to gain from God help in the varying needs of life. Prayer is the desire to possess God Himself

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

To all my little Hulkamaniacs, say your prayers, take your vitamins and you will never go wrong.

I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.

Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

It is a good rule never to look into the face of a man in the morning till you have looked into the face of God.

I you're in prayer, take care of your heart. If you're eating, take cre of your throat. If you're in another man's house, take care of your eyes. If you among people, take care of your tongue.

If you want the Kingdom speeded, go out and speed it yourselves. Only obedience rationalizes prayer. Only Missions can redeem your intercessions from insincerity.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

As long as I see anything to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

The world is holy. We are holy. All life is holy. Daily prayers are delivered on the lips of breaking waves, the whisperings of grasses, the shimmering of leaves.

Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.