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Quotes About Prayer

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
~ Anne Lamott
Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.
~ Saint Augustine
Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.
~ Benjamin Harrison
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
We cannot pray and remain the same.
~ Ruth Graham
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
~ Doris Lessing
I'm amazed, that how salam (peace) is always the first word to start a meeting. but in prayer it is the end word. Maybe it means the end of prayer is the start of a meeting.
~ Ali Shariati
Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.
~ Jim Cymbala
The great method of prayer is to have none. If in going to prayer one can form in oneself a pure capacity for receiving the spirit of God, that will suffice for all method.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
Gratitude is the greatest prayer. Thank you is the greatest mantra.
~ Swami Nithyananda
Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer
~ Charles Spurgeon
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
~ Adoniram Judson
He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
~ William Law
Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.
~ John Wesley
Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.
~ Watchman Nee
Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
~ Martin Luther
Feeling is the language that speaks to the Divine Matrix (the Universe). Feel as though your goal is accomplished and your prayer is already answered.
~ Gregg Braden
Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
Prayer is the deliberate and persevering action of the soul. It is true and enduring, and full of grace. Prayer fastens the soul to God and makes it one with God's will.
~ Julian of Norwich
With God there is no need for long speeches.
~ Jane Frances de Chantal
The root of prayer is interior silence.
~ Thomas Keating
Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
The true church lives and moves and has its being in prayer.
~ Leonard Ravenhill
God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.
~ J. D. Greear