Quotes About Prayer

God in His providence hasn't called us to watch history, but to shape history by praying in His Name.

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

We pray for the many brothers and sisters who seek refuge far from their native lands, who seek a home where they can live without fear: that they might always be respected in their dignity.

I study the Bible all week, pray to the Lord, and then I speak from my heart. It's all about brutal honesty.

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request.

We honor God by asking for great things when they are a part of His promise. We dishonor Him and cheat ourselves when we ask for molehills where He has offered mountains.

You can't change someone's behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.

Don't panic and lose hope even if there's a mountain in your pathtalk to the One who created the mountains.

You should hope for courage and try for honor. And maybe even pray that the people telling you what to do have some, too.

If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.

Remember me when you do pray that hope doth lead from day to day.

I hope the day that all the Christians are one. This is my dream.

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.

We ought never to lose hope. God overwhelms us with his grace, if we keep asking.

Hope is good. Without it, well, you do the math. But hope has to be like a prayer. Putting it out there to something more powerful than yourself.

Sometimes we ask God for help and God gives us hope, not because it's different, but because it's the same.

If you're going to hope for a change, you'd better start to pray for a change. If you're just hoping, you ain't going anywhere.

I seek refuge in Thee from every hope which would distract me.

Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.

This common prayer project has taken years of energy, but we see it not as a way to leave our individual churches, but as a movement we hope to see permeate the larger Church.

Surely common sense as well as anthropological evidence documents the universal need to pray, to hope, and to lament or carouse through song.

We gave ourselves for lost men, and prepared for death. Yet we did lift up our hearts and voices to God above, who "showeth His wonders in the deep".