Prayer Quotes

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer.
Thomas a Kempis

Yourself, Slow, Turning

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
E. Stanley Jones

God, Ourselves, Purposes

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
Dean Inge

Energy, Action, Act

Prayer in private results in boldness in public.
Edwin Louis Cole

Public, Results, Private

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
Laurence Sterne

Easy, Sweetest, Duties

I also pray for favor and His anointing on my life and ministry that I might have spiritual blessing when I minister to people. They're my principal prayers; I don't have a prayer list that I go down.
Pat Robertson

Life, Spiritual, Down

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
Pat Robertson

Mean, Lord, Direction

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.
Liam Neeson

Someone, Person, Walk

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.
Nat Turner

Time, Great, Society

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.
David Wilkerson

Teen, America, Challenge

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
Loretta Young

Powerful, Greatest, Universe

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
David Brainerd

Time, Heart, Thoughts

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.
William Wilberforce

God, Place, Against

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
Edith Stein

True, Single, Living

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjold

God, Human, Become

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.
Martha Reeves

Found, Miracles, Results

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
E. Stanley Jones

God, Down, Whole

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey

Truth, Spirit, Speaking

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Henri Matisse

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
Wendell Berry

Time, Good, God

It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
Alex Grey

Play, Moment, Place

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
Muhammad Iqbal

Nature, Act, Scientific

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.
Tony Campolo

Spiritual, Depression, Often

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
William Ames

Love, Faith, Religion

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.
Mike Huckabee

God, Share, Planet

We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through.
Sam Levenson

Through, Taken, Schools

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith, as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.
J. C. Watts

Life, Faith, God

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Hoover

Respect, Two, Fishing

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.
Georges Bernanos

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