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

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
John Buchan

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

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
John Selden

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

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.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

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

Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.'
Thomas Kinkade

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.
James Martineau

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.
Michael Shermer

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Charles Lamb

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
Jonathan Edwards

So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
Aaron Neville

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
Gerald Vann

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers

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.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.
Horatio Alger

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'
Billy Graham

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

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.
Frederick William Robertson