Quotes About Prayer

The holy man can pretend to hate the pleasures of this world, while at the same time he is still praying and begging for similar satisfactions in heaven.

The hungry ones are praying and begging for daily bread, while food is thrown daily in the palaces.

The prayer of the true soldier is not to die peacefully, but to leave the country and its citizens with peace of mind.

The secret to eternal peace of mind is not in frequent prayers or meditations, but in perfecting each prayer. Aim for quality over quantity.

The tricky part of religion is that once you are praying to the wrong name, all your efforts will be seen as wasted. Sending your package to the wrong address.

Those who wish to pray in the 'name of Jesus' should use the name Yeshua instead.

You are required to pray, meditate and practice whatever you have been teaching to others.

You see, God is nobody's father. We are not even qualified to be His slaves or work under His full service like the angels. We must bow down while praying.

You should meditate and dedicate your entire life to the Creator.

Time spent in prayer is not time wasted but time invested.

As John Wesley once said, "God does nothing but in answer to prayer."1* Prayer is therefore not an option for mankind but a necessity. If we don't pray, heaven cannot interfere in earth's affairs. It is imperative that we take responsibility for the earth and determine what happens here by our prayer lives.

What Is Prayer? Prayer is man giving God the legal right and permission to interfere in earth's affairs.

the most awesome power every human being possesses: the power to influence earth from heaven through prayer.

Prayer is earthly license for heavenly interference.

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.(1 John 5:14–15)

Prayer is both a right and a privilege of redeemed man, who is now in a position to enter fully into a relationship of love with God and to agree that "His kingdom come, His will be done on earth as it is in heaven." (See Matthew 6:10.)

The ninth verse is part of His discourse on prayer: "So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

Prayer is therefore not an option for mankind but a necessity. If we don't pray, heaven cannot interfere in earth's affairs. It is imperative that we take responsibility for the earth and determine what happens here by our prayer lives.

Purpose is the raw material for your prayer life.

Prayer should not be open-ended. It should be purpose-driven, motivated by a knowledge of God's ways and intentions.

I do not speak Kiowa, and I never understood her prayers, but there was something inherently sad in the sound, some merest hesitation upon the syllables of sorrow.

It is in human nature to pray. It is appropriate that we lay our words upon the earth. And so: Great Mystery, you who dwell in the endless beyond, you who spoke the first word and made of your breath the mountains and the waters, the trees and the grasses, the man and the woman and the child, hear me in my small voice. I am your thankful creature.

When Jesus's followers asked him to teach them to pray, he didn't tell them to divide into focus groups and look deep within their own hearts.

The crucifixion was the shocking answer to the prayer that God's kingdom would come on earth as in heaven.