Prayer Quotes

• ... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Prayer
  • Tired
  • Grief

• I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Words

• Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.” ~Blink

  

  Ted Dekker
  • May
  • Powerful
  • Mankind

• All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don't even trust with our daily lives... As long as there's prayer and exams, as long as there's games, there will be prayers.

  

  Benjamin Watson
  • God
  • Long
  • Control

• Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Prayer
  • Stream
  • Superficialities

• When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

  

  George Carey
  • Prayer
  • Fire

• Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

  

  Andre Gide
  • Prayer

• Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Faith
  • Mountains

• There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of contemplation and prayer. Then we shall perceive precious pearls.

  

  Sadhu Sundar Singh
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Wish

• 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.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Relationship
  • Prayer

• My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Life
  • God
  • Prayer

• Prayer is a method practised from ancient days, so it's very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people, gladiators would do years ago, so we're just maintaining that routine.

  

  Anthony Joshua
  • People
  • Important
  • Spiritual

• Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Prayer

• The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Help
  • Human Nature
  • Providence

• It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Future
  • Action
  • Humanity

• Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.

  

  Amy Carmichael
  • Day
  • Prayer
  • Core

• If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer.

  

  Walter J Chantry
  • School
  • Exhaustion
  • Doubtful

• More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Life
  • Rest
  • Distriction

• Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.

  

  George MacDonald
  • Light
  • Wish
  • Prayer

• A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.

  

  B. H. Roberts
  • Men
  • Infinite
  • Holy

• A legalistic commitment to duration can kill one's prayer life.

  

  R. Kent Hughes
  • Life
  • Commitment
  • Prayer Life

• That holy, humble, meek, modest, retiring Form, sometimes called the Spirit of Prayer, has been dragged from the closet, and so rudely handled by some of her professed friends, that she has not only lost all her wonted loveliness, but is now stalking the street, in some places, stark mad.

  

  Asahel Nettleton
  • Lost
  • Spirit
  • Loveliness

• All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Hope
  • Giving
  • Waste

• The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • May
  • Prayer

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