Quotes About Prayer

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.

I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back. (on re-signing for Liverpool)

Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!

When you get up and say, "God, I want to thank you for being alive, I've got family, I've got my health," you're going to draw in more of the good things from God.

The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me.

If we could see, even for a split second, the depths of God's love for us - all we'd want to do is worship and prayer would never seem a chore.

By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more.

Every morning when I get up, I ask God what he wants me to do, ask him to lead me to the right people to help them.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

Is this dying? Is this all? Is this what I feared when I prayed against a hard death? Oh, I can bear this! I can bear this!

I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.

Regardless of whom you pray to, during war our experiences as a community and as mothers are the same.

All my life I been waitin' for I been prayin' for, for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. They'll be no more wars and our children will play, one day.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

War destroys, kills, impoverishes. Lord, give us your peace!

Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.

Él rezaba para que sus alas de ángel la mantuvieran a salvo.

She was everything to him—his friend, his lover, his conscience, his passion. She was the answer to all the prayers he'd never had enough sense to pray. And if he wasn't as perfect for her as he wanted to be, she'd just have to work harder to improve him.

Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; know and the door will be opened to you. ~Matthew 7:7