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Quotes About Prayer

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.
~ Benjamin Franklin
formed the following little prayer, which was prefix'd to my tables of examination, for daily use. "O powerful Goodness! bountiful Father! merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolutions to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favors to me.
~ Benjamin Franklin
with tears and inward supplication besought him so to open my understanding that I might know his will concerning me;
~ Benjamin Franklin
We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.
~ Benjamin Netanyahu
Meditation and prayer work together to facilitate an active two-way relationship between ourselves and God. By adding journaling and reflective writing, we find that the Holy Spirit will use our thoughts and reflections to guide and inspire us, enriching and deepening our understanding of any challenges or difficult circumstances.
~ Benjamin W. Decker
Prayer is the method by which we set the intention in Christian meditation. We give the meditation to the Holy Spirit and welcome the Spirit's presence and guidance.
~ Benjamin W. Decker
The Bible teaches us that prayer is about our own inner relationship with the one true source of all things, our Heavenly Parents. This is essentially true about meditation as well.
~ Benjamin W. Decker
The greatest priority when it comes to prayer and meditation is that we open our hearts as a temple to Christ and welcome the Spirit from within.
~ Benjamin W. Decker
We must depend on His Word, pray the promises of God, and then watch what happens. The Word spoken through your lips releases angels.
~ Benny Hinn
With continued prayer and an equally-determined commitment to action for needed anti-violence reforms, let us resolve to work toward a new era in which every American child and every adult are protected from the ravages of brutality, safe and secure in our homes and schools and communities.
~ Bernice King
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for.
~ Angelina Grimke
I had a regiment of psalms that I said each day.
~ Dominique Jackson
I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.
~ Loretta Lynn
I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer.
~ Susan Olsen
I am not insulted by billions of Christians, Muslims and Jews believing there is a God and praying to this nonexistent deity on a regular basis.
~ Tariq Ali
I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I respect the Bible and offer namaz regularly. But I am ritualistic only up to a certain extent. I believe only in those rituals that I can understand and connect with, and conduct them my own way.
~ Emraan Hashmi
I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.
~ Cliff Richard
Like a lot of people, I pray for a sick relative or that kind of thing, but I don't pray to make my next flight connection at the airport. I find prayers before sports contests to be insensitive and kind of demeaning, at least when someone prays to beat the other team or something like that.
~ James Carville
I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.
~ Joyce Meyer
We need to not just ask God but thank Him for everything like our health, our family. And ask Him to bless our homes and to always be present in our daily lives. And to keep us safe is most important.
~ Jose Altuve
Religion has been a huge part of my life.
~ Elizabeth Smart
Human beings are religious animals.
~ Umberto Eco
así fue como apareció, de la nada, mientras Rand rogaba por el regreso de su hija: una sonrisa de asesino.
~ Gillian Flynn