Quotes About Prayer

Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.

Prayer is not a means by which I seek to control God; it is a means of putting myself in a position where God can control me.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

I prayed fifteen years for the conversion of my oldest brother. When he seemed to be getting further and further away from any hope of conversion, I prayed on.

Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power.

The best weapons of a Jew are his prayers.

An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.

Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

Prayer is the master strategy that Godgives for the defeat and rout of Satan.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him.

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.