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Quotes About Prayer

She recited the only prayer Laura had ever taught her. "God grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.
~ Karin Slaughter
The author says that theologian operates with windows open to the interest of the world, but also with a skylight that allows full awareness of prayer.
~ Karl Barth
The church speaks finally in that it prays for the world.
~ Karl Barth
We cannot escape from our daily routine, because it will go with us wherever we go.... God must be sought and found in the things of our world. By regarding our daily duties as something performed for the honour and glory of God, we can convert what was hitherto soul-killing monotony, to a living worship of God in all our actions. Everyday life must become itself our prayer.
~ Karl Edward Wagner
They're definitely going to declare war tomorrow. In the morning. It's probably timed so that the nation can get down on its collective knees in church and pray for deliverance.' 'Oh, yes, war is always so Christian, isn't it?
~ Kate Atkinson
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision, and the old men's dream!
~ John Dryden
I believe that anything man himself can do for me, God can do for me in a greater way. I decided to pray and to seek God on my own. I just stayed in The Word. And it worked.
~ Mary J. Blige
It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).
~ Matthew Henry
If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.
~ Ramakrishna
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure.
~ Robert South
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
~ Tertullian
I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.
~ Vincent de Paul
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
~ John Adams
The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I will never tell anyone to pick up a gun. But I will pray for the man who picks up a gun, pray that he will be less cruel than he might otherwise have been.
~ Desmond Tutu
For when down on the knees The man (or god) stretches the arms In giving, It is no accident the hands Are curled like bowls or cups, For he offers self, yet Begs it back again.
~ Edith Tiempo
Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
~ Oscar Wilde
Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Let us think less of men and more of God.
~ Philip James Bailey
If any man obeys the gods, they listen to him also.
~ Homer
A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve
~ Thomas Paine
When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer