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Quotes About Prayer

There is clearly a Christian New Testament tradition that warns against praying loudly in the front of the temple where everyone can see you.
~ Tim Kaine
All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don't even trust with our daily lives... As long as there's prayer and exams, as long as there's games, there will be prayers.
~ Benjamin Watson
The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.
~ Henri Nouwen
The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.
~ Matisyahu
I remember, as a child, lying in my bed at night praying that I would wake up the next day and be a girl, to be my authentic self, and to just have my family be proud of me. I remember looking into the mirror struggling to say just two words, 'I'm transgender.'
~ Sarah McBride
SUCCESS TONIC • 1 tsp confidence • 1 tsp courage • 2 tsp patience • 4 tsp prayer • 4 tsp perseverance • 4 tsp joy • 6 tsp enthusiasm Take one teaspoonful of this tonic three times daily.
~ Sivananda Saraswati
Hate the sin, but love the sinner. We must pray for our enemies as well as our friends and the ones we love. Because if we pray for them, they may repent, seek God's face and turn from their wicked ways.
~ Skip Coryell
And we beseech thee, O mighty and righteous God, to pour the wealth of your mercy, though it be undeserved, onto the pour, lowly sinners of Lansing, Michigan. We implore thee, all powerful God, all knowing God, ever present and uncontainable God, we pray the magnanimousity of your love and grace.
~ Skip Coryell
I will tell you, for I never saw a man get anything from God who prayed on the earth. If you get anything from God, you will have to pray into heaven; for it is all there. If you are living in the earth realm and expect things from heaven, they will never come. And as I saw, in the presence of God, the limitations of my faith,
~ Smith Wigglesworth
So I have an extravagant God with extravagant language to make me an extravagant person-in wisdom. To this end, we pray that God will show us now why we really need the word of wisdom and how we may be in a place in which we will surely know it is of God.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
Hay una relación muy estrecha entre el pecado y la enfermedad. ¿Cuántos saben que su enfermedad es un resultado directo del pecado? Yo espero que nadie que esté viviendo en pecado venga para que le ore. Pero si obedeces a Dios y te arrepientes de tu pecado y lo dejas de hacer, Dios llegará a ti, y ni tu enfermedad ni tu pecado se quedarán. "La oración salvará al enfermo, y el Señor lo levantará; y si hubiere cometido pecados le serán perdonados.
~ Smith Wigglesworth
I'm miles from where you are. I lay down on the cold ground, and I pray that something picks me up, and sets me down in your warm arms.
~ Snow Patrol
I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.
~ Socrates
Dieu" est un mot de quatre lettres. Employer un mot ou ne pas l'employer, quelle importance? Il faut VIVRE en Dieu, que l'on prie ou non.
~ Soeur Emmanuelle
In the words of one great prayer: "Bless me into usefulness.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Good at the End is the way in which we bring our meditation to a close by dedicating all its merit, and praying with real fervor:
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Let others say what they will of the efficacy of prayer, I believe in it, and I shall pray. Thank God! Yes, I shall always pray,
~ Sojourner Truth
He thought that all men, great and small, bond and free, were sinners in the sight of God; that they were, by nature, rebels against His government; and that they must repent of their sins, and be reconciled to God, through Christ. I cannot say that I had a very distinct notion of what was required of me; but one thing I knew very well—I was wretched, and had no means of making myself otherwise. Moreover, I knew that I could pray for light.
~ Solomon Northup
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death
~ Sorin Cerin
In true marriage there must be a union of minds as well as of hearts. Emotions must not wholly determine decisions, but the mind and the heart, strengthened by fasting and prayer and serious consideration, will give one a maximum chance of marital happiness.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
~ Sren Aaby Kierkegaard
Excerpt from Prayer-World, Mantra-World And Japa
~ Sri Chinmoy
The beckoning Hands Of God's hopeful Smile Will, without fail, one day greet The fruitful cries Of man's prayerful heart.
~ Sri Chinmoy