Prayer Quotes

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God.

Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.

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

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Writing about prayer to a secular audience is tap-dancing on the radio. I want to say, 'Gee whiz, isn't this great,' and have everyone's head cocked like the RCA dog.

It's completely through prayer that I came to believe in God. I just sensed a presence south of my neck.

In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will.

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were the prayer times. But it was as if we were existing in two separate universes. The Westerners were just allowed to get on with their way of life.

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.

The fewer the words, the better the prayer.

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

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

It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

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.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

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

I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

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.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.

About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.

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.

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

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

Prayer is mans greatest power!

Music is a form of prayer.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.

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.

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.

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

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.

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

Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

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

I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.

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.

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

I don't need politicians doing a 24-hour prayer with Oral Roberts to get our country back on track.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

I like the Kardashians, but I do keep them on the top of my prayer list.

An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.

We gather for prayer, and reading the Bible, and singing the songs of David.