Quotes About Prayer

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God.

The man or woman at home who prays often has as much to do with the effectiveness of the missionary on the field, and consequently with the results of his or her labors, as the missionary.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me, Superman. Homer Simpson

The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?

The one thing that is said to have surprised God is that the voice of intercession had ceased. 'And He saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor' (Isaiah 59:16).

No man has any right to speak to men about God who has not first spoken to God about men.

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to men 'whatsoever and anything' they shall ask.

Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

Religious men are and must be heretics now- for we must not pray, except in a "form" of words, made beforehand- or think of God but with a prearranged idea.

Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

Let nothing disturb the silence of this time with you, my Lord.

The devil makes you think you are poor and makes even others who practice prayer think this of themselves. And he is somewhat right because you have promised poverty -- orally, that is. I say orally, for it is impossible that, if with the heart we understand what we promise and then promise it, the devil could draw us for twenty years and even our whole lives into this temptation; 'impossible,' because we would see that we are deceiving the world and our own selves.

You must remember not to build on prayer and contemplation alone. Unless you strive to live the virtues, you will never grow beyond the stature of spiritual dwarves.

Prayer alone can do a lot of good for the people you pray for. Beyond that, it's not necessary to try to help the whole world. Concentrate on your own circle of companions who need you. Then, whatever you do will be of greater benefit.

Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.

Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.

you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.

souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralysed: they possess feet and hands but they cannot control them.