Prayer Quotes

• I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Time
  • Lost

• Prayer is the lungs through which holiness breathes. Prayer is not only the language of spiritual life, but also makes its very essence and forms its real character. O for a faith that will not shrink though pressed by every foe; That will not tremble on the brink of any earthly woe. Lord, give us such a faith as this... whatever may come...

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Life
  • Real
  • May

• Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Truth
  • Prayer

• What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Morning

• All that God is, and all that God has, are at the disposal of player. Prayer can do anything that God can do, and as God can do anything, prayer is omnipotent.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Player
  • Can Do

• Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them to say: God bless mommy, God bless daddy, and God bless Babe Ruth! He's upped daddy's paycheck by 15 to 40 percent!

  

  Waite Hoyt
  • God
  • Children
  • Baseball

• Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • God
  • More
  • Gratitude

• There is no need to get to a place of prayer; pray wherever you are.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Prayer
  • Place
  • No Need

• Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord's Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • School
  • Night
  • English

• Discipline is not consistency, and the reason why I say that is - like, for an example, making prayer five times a day, that establishes routine and consistency. That I can do. And having certain fundamental consistencies in business, can do. But time management, outside of that, that's where that's a challenge.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Time
  • Why
  • Business

• If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

  

  Debra Winger
  • Prayer
  • Patience

• Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Prayer

• Prayer is the link that connects us with God.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Prayer

• Sooner mayest thou trust thy pocket to a pickpocket than give loyal friendship to the man who boasts of eyes to the heart never mounts in dew! Only when man weeps he should be alone, not because tears are weak, but they should be secret. Tears are akin to prayer,--Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Heart
  • Friendship
  • Secret

• The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Understanding

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

  

  S. D Gordon
  • Real
  • Service
  • Secret

• Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
  • Church
  • Preparation
  • Thoughtful

• Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

  

  George Meredith
  • Prayer

• Prayer keeps me centered.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Prayer
  • Keeps
  • Centered

• I'm for prayer in schools.

  

  Charles Evers
  • Prayer

• I believe in God and the power of prayer.

  

  Kris Jenner
  • God
  • Believe
  • Power

• I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Know
  • Practice
  • Prayer

• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Morning
  • Religion
  • Prayer

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