Prayer Quotes

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

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

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy Bernard

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

The greatest prayer is patience

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
B. Graham Dienert

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.

Prayers go up and blessings come down

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

Prayer changes things? No! Prayer changes people, and people change things.
Burton Hills

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere
Gypsy Rose Lee

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'thank you', it will be enough.

Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
St. Teresa of Avila

Whoever in prayer can say, "Our Father," acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper







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