Prayer Quotes

• Prayer, like faith, obtains promises, enlarges their operation, and adds to the measure of their results.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Faith
  • Results
  • Promises

• Grace works that way. It's a kind word from a gentle person with an impossible prayer. It's a force sometimes transmitted best hand to hand in a dark place.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Prayer
  • Grace
  • Dark Place

• Empathy feels these thoughts; your hurt is in my heart, your loss is in my prayers, your sorrow is in my soul, and your tears are in my eyes.

  

  William Arthur Ward
  • Heart
  • Hurt
  • Eye

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

  

  George MacDonald
  • Light
  • Wish
  • Prayer

• Lord, for the erring thought Not unto evil wrought: Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed, and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving accept. For ignorant hopes that were Broken to our blind prayer: For pain, death, sorrow, sent Unto our chastisement: For all loss of seeming good, Quicken our gratitude.

  

  William Dean Howells
  • Heart
  • Pain
  • Gratitude

• Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from pain, trouble, and adversity, I am learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.

  

  Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
  • God
  • Blessing
  • Desperate

• Prayer means lovingly contemplating the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, allowing our hearts to be enkindled to praise and adore the love and omnipotence of the most blessed Trinity.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Love
  • Praise
  • Trinity

• Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."

  

  Madame de Stael
  • She
  • Universe
  • Pride

• It is only in times of great and grievous dullness that the believer regards prayer as a duty, and not as a privilege.

  

  Adolph Saphir
  • Prayer
  • Duty
  • Privilege

• I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Error
  • Conclusion
  • Religions

• My father saw Islam as a way to connect with the community. He never went to prayer services except for big communal events. I am absolutely certain that my father did not go to services every Friday. He was not religious.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • Father
  • Community
  • Religious

• I have said in many interviews that God had a better plan for me than I ever anticipated. I still firmly believe that, and I am grateful for a prayer answered.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • God
  • Believe
  • Prayer

• Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.

  

  Umar
  • Wisdom
  • Looks
  • Fasting

• The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

  

  Anthony of Padua
  • Prayer
  • Monk
  • Recognizes

• One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.

  

  Catherine Marshall
  • Believe
  • Praying
  • Efficacy

• For this is wisdom- to love and live To take what fate or the Gods may give, To ask no question, to make no prayer, To kiss the lips and caress the hair, Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow, To have and to hold, and, in time--let go.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Time
  • Live
  • May

• Let no one profess to trust in God, and yet lay up for future wants, otherwise the Lord will first send him to the hoard he has amassed, before He can answer the prayer for more.

  

  George Muller
  • Up
  • God
  • Future

• Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Wealth
  • Impoverishment

• For me, it is essential to have the inner peace and serenity of prayer in order to listen to the silence of God, which speaks to us, in our personal life and the history of our times, of the power of love.

  

  Adolfo Perez Esquivel
  • Life
  • God
  • Power

• True praying has the largest results for good. Poor praying the least. We cannot do too much of real praying. We cannot do too little of the sham. If we would learn the wondrous power of prayer, we must not give a fragment here and there - A little talk with Jesus, as the tiny saintlets sing - but we must demand and hold with an iron grasp the best hours of the day for God and prayer, or there will be no praying worth the name.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer.

  

  Carrie Chapman Catt
  • Vote
  • Defense
  • Offense

• What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.

  

  Charles Caldwell Ryrie
  • Christian
  • Religion
  • Train

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

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Dance
  • inspirational
  • Rain

• The word of God is the food by which prayer is nourished and made strong.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • Strong
  • Food

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