Quotes About Prayer

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

You need to have time to really hear God.

It's a time for us to take counsel from God rather than give him counsel about all the things we think he ought to be doing.

Happy is the child who happens in upon his parents from time to time to see him on his knees, or going aside regularly, to keep times with the Lord.

Even Jesus, the Savior of the world, had to take time each day to ask for his portion.

My attempt and prayer are and will be for an honorable peace between belligerent nations in the least possible time.

Honestly, I don't think Victoria has too many Secrets left... might be time to prayerfully consider a name change.

I have so much to do today that I must set apart more time than usual to pray.

I was praying about what I needed to teach. I felt it wasn't time to move out of the theme of Romans, which is salvation by grace through faith.

Staying engaged with God is absolutely essential for getting through a tough time.

I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.

What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day.

Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879

I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would find me, and here it have gone and done it. So there ain't no doubt but there is something in that thing. That is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

You can't pray a lie--I found that out.

In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.

Man is a marvelous curiosity … he thinks he is the Creator's pet … he even believes the Creator loves him; has a passion for him; sits up nights to admire him; yes and watch over him and keep him out of trouble. He prays to him and thinks He listens. Isn't it a quaint idea?

You can't pray a lie.

And who has prayed for Satan? In eight hundred years, who has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner who needed it most?

She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.