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Quotes About Prayers

I'd like to thank everyone for all their support and prayers. I'm so humbled by that.
~ Katie Taylor
Missouri's public safety officers and first responders courageously and selflessly take on tremendous risks each time they answer a call. Each time they respond, they are quietly reaffirming their solemn commitment to risk their own lives to protect others. For this, they deserve our thanks, and continued prayers and support.
~ Mike Parson
On [God] we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many (2 Cor. 1:10-11).
~ Ron Kincaid
From the beginning, the highway has always lacked grace-those who worship desert gods know them to favor retribution over the tender dove of forgiveness. In Desolation, doves are at the bottom of the food chain. Tohono O'Odham poet Ofelia Zepeda has pointed out that rosaries and Hail Marys don't work out here. You need a new kind of prayers, she says to negotiate with this land.
~ Luis Alberto Urrea
To trust God is to trust His timing. To trust God is to trust His way. God loves me too much to answer my prayers at any other time than the right time and in any other way than the right way. In the quietness of all that doesn't feel right, this truth does.
~ Lysa TerKeurst
Taking actions will fulfill your dreams and wishes, not the prayers and blessings.
~ Amit Kalantri
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
We are so sorry to hear the sad news. He(She) will be Always in our thoughts, Forever in our prayers Eternally in our memories
~ Margaret Jones
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
~ Roald Dahl
We see thus that everything depends on our own relation to the Name: the power it has on my life is the power it will have in my prayers.
~ Andrew Murray
So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into a world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn't, nothing even had a chance of coming true.
~ Sarah Dessen
So many things we ask for, hope for, prayers put out into the world so wide: there was no way they could all be answered. But you had to keep asking. If you didn't, nothing even had a chance of coming true.
~ Sarah Dessen
I'll always say my prayers... and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.
~ Johanna Spyri
Finally I examine poetic texts (Chapter 5), especially the Psalms and their obscure origins and uses. The Psalms have been attributed to a number of different periods in the history of Israel, from the time of King David (eleventh or tenth century BCE) down to the age of the Maccabees (second century BCE). One important theory suggests that they were used liturgically in the worship of Solomon's Temple, but many may also have arisen as personal prayers.
~ John Barton
Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
~ John Calvin
Whether his prayers were in vain or not, he didn't care. It was the effort that counted. But he knew that, somewhere, those prayers were being heard.
~ John Connolly
Lenda é uma coisa, realidade é outra. Aquela, nós contamos; esta escondemos. Criamos monstros na esperança de que as lições contidas nas histórias nos sirvam de guia quando nos deparamos com o que há de mais terrível na vida. Inventamos nomes para nossos medos e rezamos para não encontrar nada pior do que aquilo que nós mesmos criamos.
~ John Connolly
God is good, not in some abstract, religious definition of the word "good." Not a "sit still, shut up and say your prayers" good. Not just "good for you" like cough medicine. God is really sweet, yummy to the tummy, delectable and exquisite-taste and see that the Lord is good!
~ John Crowder
Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.
~ William Law
When we worship God, our angels add their prayers and turn our single voices into hundred-part harmony.
~ Eileen Elias Freeman
He left before she woke up—because of how disgusted he was by women's tears and prayers, "which change everything yet are really of no consequence." I thought about that a lot: about what she could have said that would have been of consequence.
~ Elif Batuman
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.
~ Aristophanes
So ever and again young Godric's dreams well up to flood old Godric's prayers, or prayers and dreams reach God in such a snarl he has to comb the tangle out, and who knows which he counts more dear.
~ Frederick Buechner
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.
~ Fulton J. Sheen