Prayer Quotes

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luther

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'
Rick Warren

God, Looking, Dangerous

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

Change, Nature, God

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance.
Margaret Mead

Love, Energy, Dance

Prayer is mans greatest power!
W. Clement Stone

Power, Greatest, Mans

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

God, Best, Truth

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
William James

Worry, Cure, Sovereign

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie Ten Boom

Small, Concern, Burden

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard

Life, Love, God

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham

Through, Hands, Bless

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
Victor Hugo

Ignorance, August

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Charles Spurgeon

Religion, Live, Long

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.
George Eliot

Faith, Through, Jesus

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.
Thomas Fuller

Night, Key, Lock

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Morning, Saying, Writing

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

God, Experience, Through

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine

Desire, Longing, Prayers

Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Life, Love, God

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

Single, Thought, Perfect

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
Ernest Holmes

Faith, Doubt, Universe

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life, Become, Personal

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Doris Lessing

Simple, Thought, Perfect

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson

Love, God, Daily

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame de Stael

Strength, Self, Goes

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Home, Proud, Aloud

Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
Samuel Butler

Dreams, Good, Bad

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila

Friendship, God, Nothing

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Austin O'Malley

Shoes, Practical, Harder

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke

Heart, Tongue, Requires

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
George Santayana

End, Among, Practical

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