Top 84 Asking Prayer Quotes
#1. Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.
George Arthur Buttrick
#2. A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility ... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.
Thomas Watson
#3. If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through a difficult situation, my answer is always meditate. The difference between prayer and meditation is that when we pray, we are asking for something, and when we meditate, we are listening to the answer.
James Van Praagh
#4. Prayer meetings are dead affairs when they are merely asking sessions; there is adventure, hope and life when they are believing sessions, and the faith is corporately, practically and deliberately affirmed.
Norman Grubb
#5. Why do we bombard God with our prayers for what we lack to be provided? Perhaps we should be asking God not to supply our wants, but to dwell within them.
Margaret Silf
#6. George Butterick said, "Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking. . . . And in the deepest mood is friendship held in reverence.
Marilyn Wilson
#7. It's important that you keep asking God to show you what He wants you to do. If you don't ask, you won't know.
Stormie O'martian
#8. He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds
thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.
Theodore Parker
#9. The significance of prayer is not what we are asking but the Person we are addressing.
Kenneth D. Boa
#10. From him I have learned that prayer is not asking for what you think you want but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. To be more grateful, more able to see the good in what you have been given instead of always grieving for what might have been.
Kathleen Norris
#11. As prayer without faith is but a beating of the air, so trust without prayer [is] but a presumptuous bravado. He that promises to give, and bids us trust His promises, commands us to pray, and expects obedience to his commands. He will give, but not without our asking.
Thomas Lye
#12. I wrote the song "Show Me" as a prayer to God asking simple, honest questions about life and death and why there is so much suffering in the world. As I grew with the song I realized I shouldn't limit these questions solely to God; I should ask those questions of others and of myself.
John Legend
#13. We should not open our mouths too hastily upon approaching God. On the contrary, we first must ask God to show us what and how to pray before we make our request known to Him. Have we not consumed a great deal of time in the past asking for what we wanted? Why not now ask for what God wants?
Watchman Nee
#14. And now I would like to give the blessing, but first - first I ask a favor of you: before the Bishop blesses his people, I ask you to pray to the Lord that he will bless me: the prayer of the people asking the blessing for their Bishop.
Pope Francis
#15. Prayer is asking God to do something, future tense; praise is believing that God has already done it, past tense.
Mark Batterson
#16. Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth. The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.
Chuck Smith
#17. Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
Leonard Cohen
#18. Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.
Mother Teresa
#19. True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.
Mary Baker Eddy
#20. Don't look at prayer as me asking God to give me something, like some type of cosmic bell captain, look at prayer as my communication with the quantum intelligence, the divine intelligence that we have out there and that is how things are manifested.
John Assaraf
#21. Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
Aldous Huxley
#22. Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.
Paul David Tripp
#23. We should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking him for them.
Vincent De Paul
#24. Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.
C.S. Lewis
#25. Because prayer is the best way to set a wrong thing right again. Admitting I don't have the answers. Asking the One who does for a bit of clarity. Putting myself back in my proper place in the universe.
Rachel Heffington
#26. Instead of asking yourself what happened, just accept that it happened. Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the Serenity Prayer.
Gillian Flynn
#27. Some call it prayer. And as with all prayers, it comes down to either asking someone else to fight for you, or asking yourself to fight.
Andrew Pyper
#28. I pray like a robber asking alms at the door of a farmhouse to which he is ready to set fire.
Leon Bloy
#29. In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
Kevin DeYoung
#30. Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.
Anne Lamott
#31. Prayer means rushing to the Father as His child. It means asking and receiving, loving and thanking Him.
Basilea Schlink
#32. Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. O God - please give him back! I shall keep asking You.
John Irving
#34. I have to be honest in asking myself: Do I really want to know and do God's will? Or is it rather that I want God to do my will? Do I go to God with the assurance that I want only to know and do his will? Or do I rather first make my own plans and then insist that God make my dreams come true?
John Powell
#35. That night when I went to the bathroom I only pretended to brush my teeth, for I feared that I would somehow rinse the prayer out as well. I wet the brush and rearranged the tube of paste to prevent my parents from asking any questions, and feel asleep with sugar on my tongue.
Jhumpa Lahiri
#36. I wondered if I could call my experience in the chapel prayer
not a long list of asking, after all, or a rote string of words, but rather a kind of sacred listening. [p, 355]
Kim Edwards
#37. Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.
Jonathon Acuff
#38. Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.
Norman Vincent Peale
#39. Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin?
John Pereira
#40. Remember that God, during your prayers, is watching for your affirmative answer to the question which He is inwardly asking you: 'Do you believe I am able to do this?' To which question you must from the depth of your heart reply, 'Yes, Lord'
John Of Kronstadt
#41. You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions,
you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.
Billy Graham
#42. I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.
Allan F. Packer
#43. Prayer is not just asking. It is listening for God's orders.
Billy Graham
#44. We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and communicating to Him all that concerns us, our thoughts, our fears, our projects, our desires, and in all things seeking His counsel.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#46. Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
Gerald Vann
#48. I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet.
Katy Perry
#49. Every prayer is an agreement with yourself. The mind is asking the real you, which is life, to guide your decisions for every single choice that you make.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#50. Prayer is asking; the answer to prayer is receiving.
John R. Rice
#51. Vocal prayer ... must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.
Teresa Of Avila
#52. I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking.
Karen White
#53. Prayer is not only asking, it is an attitude of heart that produces an atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural, and Jesus says, "every one that asketh receiveth."
Oswald Chambers
#54. Prayer is not about asking what you want, but what God wants.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.
Sonia Choquette
#57. We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.
Richard J. Foster
#58. Prayers never bring anything ... They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy - but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas
W.C. Fields
#59. Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
Kathleen Norris
#60. A key to improved prayer is to learn to ask the right questions. Consider changing from asking for the things you want to honestly seeking what He wants for you. Then as you learn His will, pray that you will be led to have the strength to fulfill it.
Richard G. Scott
#61. Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it.
Graham Cooke
#62. Ask God for what you want, but you cannot ask if you are not asking for a right thing. When you draw near to God, you cease from asking for things."Your Father knows what things you have need of, before you ask him." Then, why ask? That you may get to know Him.
Oswald Chambers
#63. But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.
Max Lucado
#64. Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.
Andy Murray
#65. Prayer isn't just about asking for things. It's taking time to hear what God is saying, too, just like any good conversation. Once we finally stop talking and demanding and begging for things, it's easier to hear what God is trying to say to us.
Lynn Austin
#66. Prayer is asking for rain and faith is carrying the umbrella.
Barbara Johnson
#67. Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.
Mother Teresa
#68. Prayer is a way of asking for something. It is the medium of miracles. But the only meaningful prayer is for forgiveness, because those who have been forgiven have everything.
Foundation For Inner Peace
#69. My favorite prayer is thank you. Most people are asking for things and not doing their part.
Tony Robbins
#70. Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.
Elizabeth George
#71. Do things that will get people asking questions, the answer to which is the Gospel.
Lesslie Newbigin
#72. The best way to pray is to open the Bible and pray Scripture back to the Lord, claiming His promises and asking that He strengthen and guide [us] in obeying His Word.
Billy Graham
#73. Keep quiet and say one's prayers - certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#74. We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.
Oswald Chambers
#75. Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom. If you may have everything by asking in His Name, and nothing without asking, I beg you to see how absolutely vital prayer is.
Charles Spurgeon
#76. God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and reading besides.
Bonar Law
#77. Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. Faith is the inner sense of knowing that with divine order working on your side, all things will come together for your good. Faith is knowing that there is a divine plan and purpose for everything in life
Iyanla Vanzant
#78. The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers
#79. Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something
Dennis Prager
#80. Prayer is not a preparation for work, it IS work. Prayer is not a preparation for the battle, it IS the battle. Prayer is two-fold: definite asking and definite waiting to receive.
Oswald Chambers
#81. Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver of Life.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
#82. Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking.
Adrian Rogers
#83. Prayer is not a check request asking for things from God. It is a deposit slip - a way of depositing God's character into our bankrupt souls.
Dutch Sheets
#84. Here Sidney sat, with the ham sandwich and flask of tea that Mrs Maguire had prepared, and let thoughts come to him. It was a form of prayer, he decided. It was not asking or talking but waiting and listening. The
James Runcie
