Quotes About Prayer

We must pray without tiring, for the salvation of mankind does not depend upon material success . . . but on Jesus alone.

Four steps to achievement: Plan purposefully. Prepare prayerfully. Proceed positively. Pursue persistently.

As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

Success never resides in the world of weak wishes, but in the palace of purposeful plans and prayerful persistence.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

When a man has done all he can do, still there is a mighty, mysterious agency over which he needs influence to secure success. The one way he can reach it is by prayer.

In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.

I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.

to a happy man, a prayer is a monotonous composition, void of meaning, until the day when suffering deciphers the sublime language through which the poor victim addresses God.

All the pious ideas that had been so long forgotten, returned; he recollected the prayers his mother had taught him, and discovered a new meaning in every word; for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

All the pious ideas that had been so long forgotten, returned; he recollected the prayers his mother had taught him, and discovered a new meaning in every word; for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! He prayed, and prayed aloud, no longer terrified at the sound of his own voice, for he fell into a sort of ecstasy.

At the end of every prayer introduced the entreaty oftener addressed to man than to God: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us. Yet in spite of his earnest prayers, Dantes remained a prisoner

Il y a des époques fatales où la prière, cet hymne naturel que Dieu a mis au fond du cÅ"ur de l'homme, devient suspecte aux yeux des hommes, car la prière est un acte d'espoir ou de reconnaissance.

All charitable souls are requested to pray God for the sincere repentance of these two miserable creatures.

Dite all'Angelo che veglierà sulla vostra vita, Morrel, di pregare qualche volta per un uomo che, simile a Satana, per un momento si è creduto simile a Dio e ha riconosciuto, con tutta l'umiltà di un cristiano, che nelle mani di Dio soltanto sta il supremo potere e la infinita sapienza

Indeed, to sacrifice seems as natural to man as to pray; the one indicates what he feels about himself, the other what he feels about God. The one means a felt need of propitiation, the other a felt sense of dependence.

But now I understood that, although words were God's first creation, silence was closer to His divine spirit, and that prayers given in silence were infinitely greater than the thousands of words men might offer up to heaven.

They carried what was holy within them, for every man was a temple, and every prayer spoken could be heard by our Father above us.

I knew that my brother would still be a part of this world no matter what happened next. I felt my love for him so deeply that my blood seemed to flow down the street to him. My blood sang out my prayer for Luis even while he was still living in our world.

That was why the Almighty had given us prayer, to distinguish man from animals, to leave the beasts inside of us locked away.

Hold it against the good I've done, she prayed. We'll sort it out when I see You.