Prayer Doesn't Work Quotes

#1. Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them.

Adam Savage

#2. Prayer doesn't work in the way that you think. If you pray for good health and it is genuine, you might be coming into sickness. The essence of good health has to do with a most delicate well-being.

John De Ruiter

#3. The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.

Max Muller

#4. You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you.' This situation is tragic beyond words. We are missing the destiny for which God made us.

John R.W. Stott

#5. The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader.

David McGee

#6. The '60s redefined narcissism as idealism.

Dennis Prager

#7. I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

Nicholas Sparks

#8. The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I'm willing to show you. In you, it's courage and daring. In me, it's weakness.

Brene Brown

#9. You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

Mother Teresa

#10. Life (like love) is forgiving and hopeful and, like a bold flower pushing out from the narrow crevice in a rock, will take any gap we allow. However small or large.

Sally Andrew

#11. I want to touch with my mouth. His mouth, with my mouth. Maybe his neck, too. But first things first: Make him aware I exist.

It's possible that he is already aware, if only in a 'don't step on the small girl' kind of way.

Laini Taylor

#12. God's greatness is beyond human understanding.

Lailah Gifty Akita