Prayer Quotes

You can pray for someone even if you don't think God exists.
Real Live Preacher

You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences.
Constantine Peter Cavafy

Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.

Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication. (Psalms 55:1)

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

These shadows look so thick to him and weigh him down so that when he finds they are shadows and that he can see through them, walk through them and be again in the sun, he is enormously delighted. And I am afraid I am just as delighted as he is.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man
Bernard of Clairvaux

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

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.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

Prayer only from the mouth is no prayer
Jamaican Proverb

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
Philip Melanchthen

Each prayer is more beautiful than the others. I cannot recite them all and not knowing which to choose, I do like children who do not know how to read, I say very simply to God what I wish to say, without composing beautiful sentences, and He always understands me. For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.
Therese of Lisieux

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.

God shapes the world by prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer.
Edward McKendree Bounds

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.







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