Top 288 Prayer Quotes

I’ve taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God.

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

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

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God’s will is bent to man’s desires, as it is that whereby man’s will is bent to God’s desires.

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

It’s important to have a place where you can recharge. Everybody’s is different, but I do think it should entail quiet because it needs to be where you hear your spirit most clearly. For me, that’s the prayer room in my apartment. And since my home is 700 square feet, I mean the coat closet near the front door.

I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer – a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

Before I go to those teams, I say, ‘Hey, I’m a Muslim and I have to pray five times a day.’ And they respect it so much that they give me a prayer room. So before the game, after the game, before practice, before I fly out, I can go to that room whenever I want and pray.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

When I was a child, we never began a meal without prayer. We thanked God for the food, for each other.

For years, I prayed to the gods of Cao Dai for healing and peace. But as one prayer after another went unanswered, it became clear that either they were nonexistent or they did not care to lend a hand.

My life is one big prayer because my life is one big blessing.

The language of the Catholic Church – the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels – was in many ways my first poetry.

One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution.

Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us – an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.

The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men – men of prayer.

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker.

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

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It’s the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land.

It is a bipartisan gathering to be able to pray for the needs back in our districts, for our families and each other. Another thing the prayer caucus does is to address religious liberty issues around the country as they arise.

Every time before I go into the studio, I say a prayer, and I really ask God for inspiration.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we’re to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

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

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you’re listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it’s about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesn’t hurt, either.

I have fabulous sons, but unfortunately, they both have that thrill-seeker gene – bigger, higher, faster, scarier. I have a deal with God. If I’m breathing, that’s a prayer for my sons’ safety.

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

My prayer for ORU is this, that this university may become the fertile womb for the next generation of Holy Spirit evangelists, to build his eternal kingdom.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I’ll do a little prayer here and there if I feel the need to.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God’s word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin – and it’s gonna happen – confession puts us back on the field.

We don’t have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

Well the basic thesis is that there’s a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that – he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people’s lives. And so I’ve documented some of these wonderful things.

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this – Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

At the end of the day, when I kick back with some barbecue and a CokeZero in front of a blockbuster film playing within the convenience of my fully air-conditioned house, I’ll say a small prayer thanking God for the American culture.

Spend more time in study and prayer. That’s the secret of successful evangelism.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God’s Book of Life.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

I read a poem every night, as others read a prayer.

I’ll tell you right now. I’m for prayer in school.

An investor doesn’t have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

The Lord’s Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

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

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.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.

Why are these things happening in Portland? In part, it’s because we are a progressive community. Groups like Patriot Prayer and the Proud Boys… they come from the outside. They come here because they know that their message is not necessarily welcomed here. They’re trying to provoke a reaction.