Prayer Quotes

Most popular prayer quotes

Prayer is the medium of miracles. It is a means of communication of the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed. - Helen Schucman quote.
Prayer is the medium of miracles. It is a means of communication of the created with the Creator. Through prayer love is received, and through miracles love is expressed.
Prayer is conversation with God while driving to work or awaiting an appointment or before interacting with a client. Prayer can be the internal voice that directs the external action. - Max Lucado quote.
Prayer is conversation with God while driving to work or awaiting an appointment or before interacting with a client. Prayer can be the internal voice that directs the external action.
We speak. He listens. He speaks. We listen. This is prayer in its purest form. God changes his people through such moments. - Max Lucado quote.
We speak. He listens. He speaks. We listen. This is prayer in its purest form. God changes his people through such moments.

Christianity God

Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child. My friend, he wants to talk with you. Even now, as you read these words, he taps at the door. Open it. Welcome him in. Let the conversation begin. - Max Lucado quote.
Prayer is simply a heartfelt conversation between God and his child. My friend, he wants to talk with you. Even now, as you read these words, he taps at the door. Open it. Welcome him in. Let the conversation begin.

God Christianity

God forbid that we should ever retire from prayer, the sweetest work of the soul. - Billy Graham quote.
God forbid that we should ever retire from prayer, the sweetest work of the soul.
Billy Graham Nearing Home: Life, Faith, and Finishing Well
The greatest prayer is patience. - Gautama Buddha quote.
The greatest prayer is patience.

patience

Faith and prayer are important elements of my belief in God. Faith is my rock, but it is also the way I align my thoughts, my heart, and my actions to realize my goals. Prayer is the way I connect with the energy of God, it is also the way I clarify to myself what I am asking for. Thus, when I enter a challenging and uncertain situation I say, "l'm putting my trust in my faith, Dear Lord, and I am stepping out on Your Word." - Maya Angelou quote.
Faith and prayer are important elements of my belief in God. Faith is my rock, but it is also the way I align my thoughts, my heart, and my actions to realize my goals. Prayer is the way I connect with the energy of God, it is also the way I clarify to myself what I am asking for. Thus, when I enter a challenging and uncertain situation I say, "l'm putting my trust in my faith, Dear Lord, and I am stepping out on Your Word."

faith

When I pray something wonderful happens, not only for the person that I am praying for, but also for me. - Maya Angelou quote.
When I pray something wonderful happens, not only for the person that I am praying for, but also for me.
Let us always pray for us, one for the other; let us pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great fraternity. - Pope Francis quote.
Let us always pray for us, one for the other; let us pray for the whole world, so that there may be a great fraternity.

brotherhood of man

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - John Bunyan quote.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

heart religious spiritual

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.

God meditation spiritual

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. - Mahatma Gandhi quote.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours.
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions. - Robert Breault quote.
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. - Victor Hugo quote.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.

God

Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be.
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden. - Corrie ten Boom quote.
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden. - Ashleigh Brilliant quote.
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burden.

helping others

Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Serving God is doing good to man. But praying is thought an easier service and is therefore more generally chosen.

helping others

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
Get down on your knees and thank God you are on your feet.
— Irish proverb

gratitude God Irish proverbs proverbs

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

forgiveness love

I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive.  A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity. - Henri Nouwen quote.
I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive.  A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.
Henri Nouwen The Genesee Diary: Report from a Trappist Monastery

asceticism

Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts. - Peace Pilgrim quote.
Prayer is a concentration of positive thoughts.
Peace Pilgrim Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

concentration

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer. - G. E. Lessing quote.
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

gratitude

If the only prayer you say in your entire life is "Thank You," that would suffice.

gratitude thankfulness

When life knocks you to your knees, which it always does and always will—well, that's the best position in which to pray, isn't it? - Ethel Barrymore quote.
When life knocks you to your knees, which it always does and always will—well, that's the best position in which to pray, isn't it?

kneeling

There are thoughts which are prayers.  There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees. - Victor Hugo quote.
There are thoughts which are prayers.  There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.

thoughts kneeling

You can't pray a lie. - Mark Twain quote.
You can't pray a lie.
Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

lies

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. - Aesop quote.
It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.
Prayer begins where human capacity ends.
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. - Wystan Auden quote.
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself.
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels.  He can sleep. - Charles Baudelaire quote.
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels.  He can sleep.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. - Henry Ward Beecher quote.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

proverbs

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. - Georges Bernanos quote.
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
Pray, v.  To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. - Ambrose Bierce quote.
Pray, v.  To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward. - Phillips Brooks quote.
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Every wish
Is like a prayer—with God. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning quote.
Every wish
Is like a prayer—with God.

wish

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in 't.
When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without a heart. - John Bunyan quote.
When thou prayest, rather let thy heart be without words, than thy words without a heart.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.  They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously. - Samuel Butler quote.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.  They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
He prayeth best, who loveth best. - Samuel Coleridge quote.
He prayeth best, who loveth best.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. - Dag Hammarskjold quote.
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Prayer is an invitation to God to intervene in our lives. - Abraham Joshua Heschel quote.
Prayer is an invitation to God to intervene in our lives.
Often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address. - C. S. Lewis quote.
Often when I pray I wonder if I am not posting letters to a non-existent address.
No sincere prayer leaves us where it finds us.

sincerity

Who rises from Prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. - George Meredith quote.
Who rises from Prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
Is prayer a local or long distance call?
All honest thought is a form of prayer.

thoughts

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold. - Harriet Beecher Stoew quote.
Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.
Prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends. - Saint Teresa of Ávila quote.
Prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends.
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four." - Ivan Turgenev quote.
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."
To pray is to think about the meaning of life. - Ludwig Wittgenstein quote.
To pray is to think about the meaning of life.
Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. - Mahalia Jackson quote.
Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

faith

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind.
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

action