Quotes About Prayer

I'm not proud that, in my time, I've tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.

The experience of prayer when there is no awareness of God and no apparent response from ourselves should not lead us to escape from prayer or give it up.

It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that were a part of my early life, some who might be following the same paths might not make those same mistakes.

I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.

I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.

Prayer is God's backstage pass into a personal audience with Him.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

I think intuition can be a form of answered prayer. You do the best you can - thinking, figuring, planning - and then you pray.

I spend a lot of time in prayer. God doesn't always show up on my time, but he always shows up!

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.

The Latin root of 'precariousness' is 'to obtain by prayer.' The precariat must ask for favours, for charity, to show obsequiousness, to plead with figures of authority. It is degrading and stigmatizing.

I'm for prayer in schools.

Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer.

Although all serious Christians recognize the importance that the Bible places on prayer, most fall short when it comes to doing it.

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?

It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come.

Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

Prayer is the God-given communication link between Heaven and Earth, time and eternity, the finite and the infinite.

The life of the individual believer, his personal salvation, and personal Christian graces have their being, bloom and fruitage in prayer.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

At the end of the day, when I kick back with some barbecue and a CokeZero in front of a blockbuster film playing within the convenience of my fully air-conditioned house, I'll say a small prayer thanking God for the American culture.

My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.

We observe that in the scriptures, fasting almost always is linked with prayer. Without prayer, fasting is not complete fasting; it's simply going hungry.

In my opinion, it is a mistake to expect in prayer a response from God. Often, God's response is outside prayer. And often, we do not link up an outside response with the effort we put into prayer.