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Quotes About Prayer

To pray well is the better half of study.
~ Martin Luther
Prayer is not designed for the furnishing of God with the knowledge of what we need, but it is designed as a confession to him of our sense of need.
~ Arthur W. Pink
perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.
~ Hortense Calisher
Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
~ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
~ Ernest Holmes
Meditation and prayer are my secret weapons, and when I use them, I can move mountains.
~ Syesha Mercado
Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
~ Shane Claiborne
Only God can move mountains, but faith and prayer can move God
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
~ Thomas Merton
God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.
~ David Brainerd
Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
~ Thomas Merton
Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.
~ Alistair Begg
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
~ E. Stanley Jones
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
~ John Selden
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.
~ G. Campbell Morgan
That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.
~ Marianne Williamson
Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.
~ Dalai Lama
Live a life of prayer, giving glory to God and continually listening for His guidance.
~ Mary C. Neal
It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
~ J. C. Macaulay
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
~ Oswald Chambers
May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.
~ Billy Graham
There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
~ Tom Vilsack