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Quotes About Prayer

I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.
~ Samuel Rutherford
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
~ Andre Gide
I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.
~ Malcolm Boyd
The soul is a muscle, and it needs to be exercised a little every day. Say a morning prayer just to say something.
~ Catherine Hicks
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
~ Nick Rahall
First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.
~ Rajneesh
Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.
~ Timothy Keller
The angels can be thought of as our prayer partners.
~ Terry Taylor
So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
~ Marianne Williamson
We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.
~ Carol Zaleski
That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
~ Emily Dickinson
Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.
~ Wilferd Peterson
My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.
~ Preston Manning
I did not pray Him to lay bare The mystery to me, Enough the rose was Heaven to smell, And His own face to see.
~ Ralph Hodgson
Each day begins with a prayer of thank you.
~ Wayne Dyer
Meditation is earnest prayer, and when prayer progresses, it becomes true meditation.
~ Ilchi Lee
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
~ William Faulkner
Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Writing is my form of celebration and prayer.
~ Diane Ackerman
Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.
~ Susan Hale
Every prayer is an agreement with yourself.
~ Miguel Angel Ruiz
Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.
~ Mark Hart
The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.
~ Marianne Williamson
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.
~ I. L. Peretz