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Quotes About Prayer

Prayer reaches out in love to a dying world and says "I care."
~ Dick Eastman
The deepest wishes of the heart find expression in secret prayer.
~ George E. Rees
The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.
~ John Newton
If we do not love one another we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Nor it is an objection to say that we must understand a prayer if it is to have its true effect. That simply is not the case. Who understands the wisdom of a flower? Yet we can take pleasure in it.
~ Rudolph Steiner
'Kol Nidrei' is probably the most important prayer in the Jewish religion. It comes on the evening of Yom Kippur. There are so many different renditions of it.
~ Itzhak Perlman
I would rather stand against the cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.
~ Thomas Lye
Restraining prayer we cease to fight Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.
~ William Cowper
The wings of prayer carry high and far.
~ Anonymous
Prayer like radium is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Whatever you do in revenge against your brother will appear all at once in your heart at the time of payer.
~ The Desert Fathers
Never say you will pray about a thing pray about it.
~ Oswald Chambers
Doubt not but God who sits on high Thy secret prayers can hear When a dead wall thus cunningly Conveys soft whispers to the ear.
~ Anonymous
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.
~ Phillips Brooks
They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!
~ James Drummond Burns
Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
~ Kahlil Gibran
Every one that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth.
~ Matthew
Ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened unto you.
~ Matthew
Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.
~ Alice McDermott
The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.
~ Mary Quant
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
~ D. A. Carson
All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long.
~ Sappho