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Quotes About Faith

It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.
~ Sheila Cassidy
When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.
~ Rudolf Steiner
I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me.
~ Patsy Kensit
Prayer is faith passing into action.
~ Richard Cecil
when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
~ Gertrude Atherton
Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go.
~ Dwight L. Moody
Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part of the creative process. Don't just brainstorm; praystorm.
~ Mark Batterson
Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The first person I came out to was God. And the first conversation I ever had with anybody was in prayer.
~ Andrew Sullivan
Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.
~ Anne Lamott
Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
~ William Gurnall
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Prayer without heart is a waste to time.
~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
I really appreciate leaders from around the globe who have come to share in prayer with us today. It reminds me that the Almighty God is a God to everybody, every person.
~ George W. Bush
Could I find a place to be alone with heaven, I would speak my heart out heaven is my need.
~ George Meredith
God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation.
~ Charles Brent
The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.
~ Paulo Coelho
God answered the prayers of animals.
~ Thomas Aquinas
Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.
~ Anne Lamott
If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.
~ Bernard Malamud
If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.
~ Bill Hybels
God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.
~ Jerry Falwell
Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.
~ Timothy Keller
What signifies the sound of words in prayer without the affection of the heart, and a sedulous application of the proper means that may naturally lead us to such an end?
~ Roger L'Estrange