Prayer Quotes

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

Socrates

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

The granting of prayer when offered in the name of Jesus reveals the Father's love to him and the honor which he has put upon him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.

Phillips Brooks

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!

James Drummond Burns

Prayer is the voice of faith.

Anonymous

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

Mary Baker Eddy

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Oliver Goldsmith

O God if in the day of battle I forget Thee do not Thou forget me.

If I am right Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay If I am wrong O teach my heart To find that better way!

Our Father which art in heaven Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil: For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory for ever. Amen.

Matthew

Every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth.

Matthew

Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you.

Matthew

Pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we may be brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one to anther.

Robert Louis Stevenson

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

I am used to praying when I am alone thank God. But when I come together with other people when I need more than ever to pray I still cannot get used to it.

Nothing is discussed more and practiced less than prayer.

Anonymous

I always love to begin a journey on Sundays because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.

Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.

Rudolph Steiner

I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.

Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

God dwells where we let God in.

Menachem Mendel

Courage is not afraid to weep and she is not afraid to pray even when she is not sure who she is praying to.

J. Ruth Gendler

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

At church with meek and unaffected grace His looks adorn'd the venerable place Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

Oliver Goldsmith

The wings of prayer carry high and far.

Anonymous

In the calm of sweet communion Let thy daily work be done In the peace of soul-outpouring Care be banished patience won And if earth with its enchantments Seek thy spirit to enthrall Ere thou listen ere thou answer Turn to Jesus tell Him all.

Turn your doubts to question turn your question to prayers turn your prayers to God.

Mark R. Litteton

Prayer like radium is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Whatever you do in revenge against your brother will appear all at once in your heart at the time of payer.

The Desert Fathers

Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.

Oswald Chambers

Doubt not but God who sits on high Thy secret prayers can hear When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.

Anonymous

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the pillow of religion.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer is a condition of mind an attitude of heart which God recognizes as prayer whether it manifests itself in quiet thinking in sighing or in audible words.

Prayer is an all-efficient panoply a treasure undiminished a mine which is never exhausted a sky unobscured by clouds a heaven unruffled by the storm. It is the root the fountain the mother of a thousand blessings.

Saint John Chrysostom

Some pray to marry the man they love my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to Heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Rose Pastor Stokes

The prayers of the Christian are secret but their effect cannot be hidden.

Howard Chandler Robbins

Man is the only creature which rises by bowing for he finds elevation in his subjection to his Maker.

Anonymous

Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.

Charlotte Elliott

Revival fires flame where hearts are praying.

If we could all hear one another's prayers God might be relieved of some of his burden.

Ashleigh Brilliant

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

Our rages daughters of despair creep and squirm like worms. Prayer is the only form of revolt which remains upright.

Georges Bernanos

Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says "I care."

To pray together in whatever tongue or ritual is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.

Madame de Stael

The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.

If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.

Dwight L. Moody

Keep us Lord so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

Prayer should be the means by which I at all times receive all that I need and for this reason be my daily refuge my daily consolation my daily joy my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

Saint John Chrysostom

Essentially prayer is based on a relationship. We don't converse freely with someone we don't know. We bare our souls and disclose our hidden secrets only to someone we trust.

I who still pray at morning and at eve Thrice in my life perhaps have truly prayed Thrice stirred below conscious self Have felt that perfect disenthrallment which is God.

James Russell Lowell

Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

Prayer is a shield to the soul a sacrifice to God and a scourge for Satan.

Prayer is the spiritual gymnasium in which we exercise and practice godliness.

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.

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