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Quotes About Prayer

We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
~ Oswald Chambers
Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen.
~ Robert Downey, Jr.
If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.
~ Isidore of Seville
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.
~ Martin Luther
Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
~ Sadhu Sundar Singh
What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.
~ Steve Buscemi
When Allah inspires your tongue to ask, know that He wants to give
~ Ibn Ata Allah
Don't ever hesitate to take to [God] whatever is on your heart. He already knows it anyway, but He doesn't want you to bear its pain or celebrate its joy alone.
~ Billy Graham
The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.
~ Anne Catherine Emmerich
I do not come to God so that Jesus can give me what I want. But I must come to God so that Jesus will grant me what I need.
~ Alistair Begg
When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It's a sign that He wants to forgive us.
~ Nouman Ali Khan
Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.
~ Graham Cooke
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
~ Kathleen Norris
Worry is a prayer for something you don't want.
~ Sharon Gannon
To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.
~ Charles Wesley
Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year's prayer, not a resolution. I'm praying for courage.
~ Susan Sontag
When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.
~ Robert D. Hales
Teach us all to do right, Lord, please, and to get along together with that atom bomb on this earth because I do not want it to fall on me-nor Thee-nor anybody living. Amen!
~ Langston Hughes
God will do nothing except you pray; and you have to be clear what you want
~ Strive Masiyiwa
Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.
~ Rick Warren
The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
If you want to talk to God, pray. If you want him to talk to you, read your scriptures.
~ Richard G. Scott
Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves to do what God wants us to do.
~ Shane Claiborne