Quotes About Prayer

We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again?

A man is what he is on his knees, and no more.

He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and on all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof.

Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

Intercessory prayer is an act of communion with Christ, for Jesus pleads for the sons of men.

Every man prays in his own language.

Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray.

A temple, first of all, is a place of prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy sanctuary--a temple.

God... God...dear Father in heaven, I'm not a praying man, but if you're up there and you can hear me, show me the way. I'm at the end of my rope. Show me the way, God...

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

After thanking everyone from God on down and then back up to God again, and then, as a precaution, tacking on a blanket thank-you for any persons or supernatural beings he had left out, he began:

The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude. When you thank God in advance for that which you choose to experience in your reality, you, in effect, acknowledge that it is there…in effect. Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered. Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate.

Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my soul to keep If I die before I wake I pray the Lord my soul to take.

In the creation of individual reality, thought control, or what some might call prayer—is everything. Prayer? Thought control is the highest form of prayer. Therefore, think only on good things, and righteous. Dwell

The only Sponsoring Thought which could override this thought is the thought held in faith that God will grant whatever is asked, without fail. Some people have such faith, but very few.

The correct prayer is therefore never a prayer of supplication, but a prayer of gratitude.

Thankfulness is thus the most powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, I have answered. Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate.

I asked him, half-seriously, if he ever asked God to help him give it up. 'The drink? I only have the courage to pray for sobriety, d'you know, when I'm drunk.