Prayer Quotes
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Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. (Quote by - Bible)
When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. (Quote by - Jane Wagner)
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven. (Quote by - John Gardner)
Hope, he called, belief In God,--work, worship therefore let us pray! (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. (Quote by - Oswald Chambers)
I ask not a life for the dear ones, All radiant, as others have done, But that life may have just enough shadow To temper the glare of the sun; I would pray God to guard them from evil, But my prayer would bound back to myself: Ah! a seraph may pray for a sinner, But a sinner must pray for himself. (Quote by - Charles M. Dickinson)
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. (Quote by - William Inge)
But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. (Quote by - Bible)
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God. (Quote by - Philip Henry)
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude. (Quote by - Walter A. Mueller)
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him. (Quote by - William McGill)
Unless I had the spirit of prayer, I could do nothing. (Quote by - Charles G. Finney)
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice. (Quote by - Matthew Henry)
Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him - you try too hard, friend - drop to your knees and listen to him, he'll hear you better that way. (Quote by - Ever Garrison)
I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. (Quote by - Jean Ingelow)
The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. (Quote by - Frederick Denison Maurice)
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Quote by - Søren Kierkegaard)
Prayer moves the hand that moves the world. (Quote by - John Aikman Wallace)
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. (Quote by - B. Graham Dienert)
Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from solitude. (Quote by - Georges Lefevre)
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. (Quote by - Philip Melanchthen)
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. (Quote by - Austin O'Malley)
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. (Quote by - Bible)
In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Give us grace and strength to preserve. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare to us our friends and soften to us our enemies. Give us the strength to encounter that which is to come, that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune, and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God. (Quote by - Michel de Montaigne)
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee. (Quote by - Joseph Addison)
Only man, among living things, says prayers. Or needs to. (Quote by - Peter Bowman)
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. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
We offer up prayers to God only because we have made Him after our own image. We treat Him like a Pasha, or a Sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased. (Quote by - Voltaire)
Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. (Quote by - Satchel Paige)
But maybe prayer is a road to rise, A mountain path leading toward the skies To assist the spirit who truly tries. But it isn't a shibboleth, creed, nor code, It isn't a pack-horse to carry your load, It isn't a wagon, it's only a road. And perhaps the reward of the spirit who tries Is not the goal, but the exercise! (Quote by - Edmund Vance Cooke)
And from the prayer of Want, and plaint of Woe, O never, never turn away their ear! Forlorn, in this bleak wilderness below, Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear! (Quote by - James Beattie)
Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is. (Quote by - Bible)
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. (Quote by - Ashleigh Brilliant)
To Mercy, Pity, Peace and Love All pray in their distress. (Quote by - William Blake)
Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer. (Quote by - Verbena Woods)
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. (Quote by - Oswald Chambers)
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away. (Quote by - Hartley Coleridge)
Give us this day our daily bread is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. (Quote by - P.J. Wingate)
He prayeth well who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. (Quote by - Henry Ward Beecher)
The fewer the words, the better the prayer. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Pray, v: to ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer? (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. (Quote by - Saint Francis of Assisi)
Just my vengeance complete, The man sprang to his feet, Stood erect, caught at God's skirts, and prayed! So, I was afraid! (Quote by - Robert Browning)
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it. (Quote by - Guy H. King)
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. (Quote by - Samuel M. Shoemaker)
Father! no prophet's laws I seek,-- Thy laws in Nature's works appear;-- I own myself corrupt and weak, Yet will I pray, for thou wilt hear. (Quote by - George Gordon Noel Byron)
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. (Quote by - Richard J. Needham)
They who have steeped their soul in prayer can every anguish calmly bear. (Quote by - Richard M. Milnes)
He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. (Quote by - Frederick Douglass)
The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
She knows omnipotence has heard her prayer And cries, It shall be done--sometimes, somewhere. (Quote by - Ophelia G. Browning)
