Prayer Quotes

• It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Humility

• Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

  

  Oveta Culp Hobby
  • Soul
  • Hand
  • Taken

• I balance with prayer and music. I sing every day.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Music
  • Day
  • Balance

• Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • House
  • Devil
  • Laziness

• Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Prayer
  • Gates Of Heaven
  • Battering

• This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Good
  • Great
  • Fear

• In Morocco, a Muslim country, I got to hear the call to prayer five times a day. At first it felt kind of scary, kind of dangerous, because of the propaganda towards anything Muslim in the U.S. subconsciously coming out in me. By the end of the trip, it was so beautiful, and then not hearing it when I got back to L.A. really threw me off.

  

  Mark Foster Foster the People
  • Country
  • Beautiful
  • Scary

• The 'means of grace' are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord's Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • Reading
  • Simple

• If your life is rushing in many directions at once, you are incapable of the kind of deep, unhurried prayer that is vital to the Christian walk.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • Life
  • Christian
  • Deep

• When it becomes clear to us that prayer is a part of our daily program of work, it will also become clear to us that we must arrange our daily program in such a way that there is time also for this work, just as we set aside time for other necessary things, such as eating and dressing.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Time
  • Work
  • Daily

• Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Practice

• Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Exercise
  • Drawing

• The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • Real
  • Service
  • Secret

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

  

  Mary Karr
  • God
  • Believe
  • Prayer

• Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Prayer
  • Ignorance
  • August

• When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

  

  Olympia Dukakis
  • Mother
  • Night
  • Sleep

• Be honest with God and ask Him to give you a willingness to do the work of prayer.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Work
  • God
  • Giving

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

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Power
  • Poverty

• The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.

  

  Bill Hybels
  • God
  • Attention
  • Jesus

• The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Church
  • Poetry
  • Catholic

• After my engagement with Muslim friends, I pray more than I used to pray. My prayer life has been enriched by my encounter with some Muslims, encouraged by their devotion and also enriched by the ways in which they pray. Have I compromised in this way at all? No, to the contrary, I've gone deeper in my faith and I think my love for God has been deepened and made more intelligent in a sense, more rich by that very encounter.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Thinking
  • Devotion
  • Contrary

• Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • Church
  • Preparation

• My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.

  

  Tara Brach
  • Life
  • Love
  • May

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