Prayer Quotes

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world.

Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life.

Will not the Lord hear my prayers and listen to my cries as soon as he ever did to theirs [the ancient saints'] if I come to him in the manner they did?

We'll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs. My only prayer is that you'll realize you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.

Writers when they're writing live in a spooky, clamorous silence, a state somewhat like the advanced stages of prayer but without prayer's calming benefits.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

We all need God's power in our lives, and prayer is the dynamic that releases His power, sometimes in dramatic ways.

The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

As Christians try to force prayer into public schools, they often settle for a 'moment of silence.' But that supposedly innocuous 'moment of silence' is a deafening roar to a nonbeliever.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.

Neglecting to bathe the ministry in prayer leaves us just workers, not worshipers. When we unite in prayer, there is incredible power.

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

One of the greatest fruits of obedience is bold confidence in prayer.

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.

Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God.

After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.

I get through the tough times through prayer and meditation. And I have really good friends and family, and a great therapist.

I was raised with a strong belief in prayer. And that's never really left me. I find it great to close your eyes, breathe, and just talk to the universe. It really comforts me.

Daddy, I'm always in prayer because part of my brain, through the Holy Spirit, is in constant communication with Heaven [God]. My mouth is for talking to people.

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?

People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.

Other forms of relating to God that have unique value in connecting us to Him include contemplative prayer and centering prayer.

Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer will still be heard. I believe that someone in that great somewhere hears every word.

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world.

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

My prayer, my sacrifice, my life and my death is all for Allah, The Lord of The Worlds.

Prayer has never made you right, because right now our world of Islam is filled with abject hypocrisy in its religiosity.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

I am not yet born; O fill me With strength against those who would freeze my humanity, would dragoon me into a lethal automaton would make me a cog in a machine, a thing with one face, a thing

I am not yet born; O hear me. Let not the bloodsucking bat or the rat or the stoat or the club-footed ghoul come near me.

To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle.

My most fervent prayer is to be a President who can make it possible for every boy in this land to grow to manhood by loving his country--instead of dying for it.