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Quotes About Prayer

And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
~ James Elroy Flecker
Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.
~ Josemaria Escriva
When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
~ A. C. Dixon
You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none
~ Alison Weir
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year
~ Beth Moore
You're believing for more and so through the years God has honored that.
~ Bill Bright
People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.
~ Swami Vivekananda
My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.
~ Thomas Merton
I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.
~ Dolly Parton
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.
~ George Washington
I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.
~ George Weah
The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
~ Horace Bushnell
If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
Faithful continued prayer is one key to answered prayer. As James expresses it, "You do not have, because you do not ask God" (James 4:2).
~ John F Walvoord
God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.
~ John Owen
Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.
~ John Piper
God does nothing apart from prayer, but he does everything by it.
~ John Welch
Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.
~ Khalil Gibran
All names of God remain hallowed because they have been used not only to speak of God but also to speak to him.
~ Martin Buber
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
~ Phillips Brooks