Quotes About Prayer

If you train your children to anything, train them, at least, to a habit of prayer.

Prayer is repeating the victor's name (Jesus) into the ears of Satan and insisting on his retreat.

I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up.

But from the good health of the mind comes that which is dear to all and the object of prayer-happiness.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.

I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.

The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: 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.

Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.

God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

Prayer unites the soul to God.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

I prefer a kind of sweet, deep, rich prayer in which a person goes in and says, Take me down deep into the reason you gave me life. Take me down deep. It silences the chaos in me.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.