On Your Knees Prayer Quotes

#1. Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).

Boyd K. Packer

#2. Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

Michael Mewshaw

#3. You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

Amy Welborn

#4. Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Austin O'Malley

#5. Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

Saint Augustine

#6. One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

James Dobson

#7. If you pray with your knees bow, you surrender to God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Prayer was not a sacred or holy thing. It was not spoken plainly, in Twi or English. It need not be performed on the knees or with folded palms. For Akua, prayer was a frenzied chant, a language for those desires of the heart that even the mind did not recognize were there.

Yaa Gyasi

#9. Victories are won while on your knees! Keep praying for those who rise up against you. Fear not. The Lord has rectified the problem. Prayer is POWERFUL!!

Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#10. Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

Martin Luther

#11. A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

Arthur Tappan Pierson

#12. So he re-entered the prayer that he thought he had closed, and added the phrase that he had deliberately left out when he was on his knees: Thy will be done.

Orson Scott Card

#13. Fall on your knees and grow there. There is no burden of the spirit but is lighter by kneeling under it. Prayer means not always talking to Him, but waiting before Him till the dust settles and the stream runs clear.

F.B. Meyer

#14. Pray on bow knees,

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.

Billy Graham

#16. Our President has given symbolic support to the National Day of Prayer but I believe that our nation needs an impassioned call to our collective knees.

Jonathan Falwell

#17. No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

J.C. Ryle

#18. We have not yet learned that we are more powerful on our knees than behind the most powerful weapons that can be developed.

Billy Graham

#19. It's never too late to get down on your knees and pray.

Delano Johnson