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Quotes About Prayer

That IS what journal writing is all about—showing ourselves to God.
~ Frank McCourt
These humans are only of flesh, of mud, and I suggest there is one force stronger than their zeal for God: their own self-righteousness! We will make them proud, pure in their own eyes, vindictive, unjust judges over each other, and stir up such a noise among them that the simplest prayer will not be uttered!
~ Frank Peretti
Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God's forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul.
~ Franklin Graham
For those who have already experienced the grace of Almighty God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, prayer becomes the catalyst for fellowship with the Lord of our souls, redeemed by his blood. By tapping into the channel by which we commune with the One who calls his children "friends," we can receive his strength in our weakness; his guidance in our steps; and his mercy when we stumble along life's path.
~ Franklin Graham
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.
~ Franz Kafka
Prayer," Kafka notes, brings "its infinite radiance to bed in the frail little cradle of one's own existence.
~ Franz Kafka
The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Do I think God is going to win football games? Oh no. I never prayed to God to help us win a game. I would pray for the safety of the players. I would pray that they would do their best. I think God will answer that.
~ Bobby Bowden
Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can't answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.
~ Darin Strauss
I don't believe in praying to win.
~ John Wooden
At the height of Earth, Wind & Fire's success, I felt an emptiness and void. I studied lots of philosophies and cults and I prayed to God. God made it plain that Jesus Christ died for my sins.
~ Philip Bailey
COVID-19! I blow the wind of God on you! You are destroyed forever.
~ Kenneth Copeland
'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.
~ Darryl Pinckney
I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
~ Frances Farmer
I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
~ Dani Shapiro
The right wing always mobilizes around constitutional amendments: the right to bear arms, school prayer.
~ Al Sharpton
You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and how evil you all are, and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.
~ Charles Simeon
I pray to my mother before every game. She passed away when I was 9, but I always consider her my wings on the floor, my extra step, my extra focus, my extra everything, to watch over me when I'm on the court. It takes some pressure off you when you feel like you have your mother above watching you. And I always pray to God for guidance.
~ Jahlil Okafor
I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.
~ Magic Johnson
To eat in the same room where food is cooked - that is the way to thank the Lord for His abundance.
~ Paul Engle
I thank God every day.
~ Vitor Belfort
I thank God every day for all my blessings.
~ Kim Zolciak-Biermann