Top 100 Prayer Hands Quotes
#1. My kingdom for caffeine," she mumbled, making prayer hands up at the ceiling.
When, however, in the next second, Issa entered with tea, Zuzana was not grateful.
"Coffee, I meant coffee," she told the ceiling, as if the universe were a waiter that had gotten her order wrong.
Laini Taylor
#2. Whatever else I might have thought of [President George W] Bush's call, with its assumption that prayer is some sort of miracle Vicks VapoRub for the national charley horse, it's clear that his hands were reaching for any hands but mine.
Natalie Angier
#3. To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
Karl Barth
#4. May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting up of my hands be like the evening sacrifice. PSALM 141:2
Anne Graham Lotz
#5. There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.
Robert Hugh Benson
#6. God works on earth only through the prayers of believers and based on this basis, the destiny of this world is not in the hands of earthly kings and rulers but in the hands of prayer warriors.
Sunday Adelaja
#8. Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors.
Israelmore Ayivor
#9. Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.
Horatius Bonar
#10. My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said "Batter up,"I didn't argue that I wasn't ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer to Mickey Mantle.
Dean Koontz
#11. A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.
Charles Brent
#12. Like a prayer, that was how her name sounded on his lips. She took his face in her hands, finding his eyes blazing, his breathing as ragged as her own
Sarah J. Maas
#13. O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.
Robert Murray M'Cheyne
#14. I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell Berry
#15. Where once I prayed for forgiveness from a father God who held up huge palms and said "Thou shalt not," now I find peace with a sister god who takes my open hands in hers and says, "You will.
Betsy Cornwell
#16. When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#17. Father
Break my heart for what breaks yours
Give me open hands and open doors
Put your light in my eyes and let me see
That my own little world is not about me
Matthew West
#18. Prayer is essentially a partnership of the redeemed child of God working hand in hand with God toward the realization of His redemptive purposes on earth.
Jack W. Hayford
#19. What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
Alfred Lord Tennyson
#20. When there is a crisis, let your heart pray, but let your hands work.
John Kramer
#21. Let us all resign ourselves into His hands, and pray that in all things He may guide us to do His Holy Will ... When thoughts of this or that come I turn to Him and say: "Only what you will, my God. Use me as You will".
Mary MacKillop
#22. Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
R.A. Torrey
#23. Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide
#24. When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
Jeremy Taylor
#25. What can not be overcome in prayer? Answer me! What cannot be done by the hand of the Almighty? Answer me! What can be done by your feeble arms!? ANSWER ME! He can take down the iron curtain in a day, He CAN convert a nation in an hour. Call upon Him, believe Him.
Paul Washer
#26. To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should.
Gerard Manley Hopkins
#27. The child asks of the Father whom he knows. Thus, the essence of Christian prayer is not general adoration, but definite, concrete petition. The right way to approach God is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#28. When we forgive someone, it doesn't justify what they've done. It releases them into God's hands so He can deal with them.
Stormie O'martian
#30. Through prayer we can reach into the future and with loving hands touch those beyond our reach.
Brother Andrew
#31. You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?"
"Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.
Karen Joy Fowler
#32. O Lord, I commit my plans into thy mighty hands, guide me along straight path.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#33. I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.
Vanna Bonta
#34. I felt so full of gratitude and humility that I clasped my hands in front of me, closed my eyes and said a silent prayer of thanks to God ... I had at last achieved something I'd wanted for so long ... My insides bubbled with happiness. It was a dream come true.
Cathy Freeman
#35. You have put your two hands upon me, and your mouth,
You have said my name as a prayer.
Here where trees are planted by water
I have watched your eyes, cleansed from regret,
And your lips, closed over all that love cannot say.
Louise Bogan
#36. Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.
The Catholic Church
#37. All the men I know add that "hands that prepared it" line. They must know it's right complimentary, an incentive to keep the women cooking.
Vicki Covington
#38. Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.
John Wesley
#39. Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light
Francis Of Assisi
#40. Prayer is lifting up empty hands to an abundant God. Harvey Kneisel, missionary
Mary Ann Bridgwater
#41. Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can do nothing. As disciples, we find not some but all of our strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God. Therefore, prayer must be our first concern.
Henri Nouwen
#42. In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.
Ann Weems
#43. When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
John Vianney
#44. After the engine had faded away she did not dismount, but sat for a few minutes with her face in her hands, almost as if she was praying. If it was a prayer she was muttering, however, it was one full of all the swear words that Not-Triss had ever heard, and quite a few she had not.
Frances Hardinge
#45. The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.
J.R. Miller
#46. Sweet serenity is found in fervent prayer. Then, we forget ourselves and remember the reaching hands of the Savior, who said, "Come unto me, all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." As our burdens are shared with Him, they do become lighter.
Russell M. Nelson
#47. When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
David Brainerd
#48. Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.
F.B. Meyer
#49. The Ideal I live for in Life
"I value the ideal of living in eternal salvation where I am eternal prevailing in all things through Christ Jesus while walking on earth now."
Daily prayer to commit my spirit to Jesus
"Lord Jesus Christ, into your hands I commit my spirit now.
Cessza Gumede
#50. 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
#51. The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy Graham
#52. Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.
J.C. Ryle
#53. Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.
Alexander Whyte
#54. He prayed as he breathed, forming no words and making no specific requests, only holding his heart, like broken birds in cupped hands,
Ellis Peters
#55. The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.
Felix Wantang
#56. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for new friends, and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations, and that they'll be pleasing to you. We thank you for this food and ask your blessing on it, and on the hands that prepared it. In Jesus' name, Amen
Virginia Smith
#57. Virgin Mary was said to have appeared there. I was pretty sure she'd had her hands joined in prayer and was crying, presumably over the inhumanity of it all, and not due to sunscreen in the eye or a loose eyelash.
Ellie O'Neill
#58. Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.
J.C. Ryle
#59. Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply.
Luther Burbank
#60. Hands up! Hands up! Everybody on the floor!" The effect was akin to three wild-eyed berserkers storming a prayer meeting.
Bryan Burrough
#61. As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.
Margaret Sanger
#62. We must lift our hands to God in prayer, crying out to Him to help us fulfill what He has called us for, to fulfill His will
Sunday Adelaja
#63. An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.
William Bolitho
#64. We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
John Calvin
#65. I once asked a Jesuit preist what was the best short prayer he knew. He said "Fuck it." as in "Fuck it, it's in Gods hands.
Anthony Hopkins
#66. 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
#67. Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#68. If we would have good ministers, we must remember our Lord's example, and pray for them. Their work is heavy. Their responsibility is enormous. Their strength is small. Let us see that we support them, and hold up their hands by our prayers.
J.C. Ryle
#70. A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.
Beth Moore
#71. Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.
Charles Studd
#72. Join hands with other protagonists of love and peace and become a love commander.
Pooja Ruprell
#73. When suffering comes, learn to trust each day into God's hands ... let your lips be filled with prayer and praise.
Billy Graham
#75. A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action.
Edward Hirsch
#76. Nothing is too great and nothing is too small to commit into the hands of the Lord.
Arthur W. Pink
#77. Thou content to leave thy prayer in his hands, who knows when to give, and how to give, and what to give, and what to withhold. So pleading, earnestly, importunately, yet with humility and resignation, thou shalt surely prevail.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#78. Saint Cath, please guide my eyes, she prays, and keep my hands from stealing. She has to pray her prayer, or things from good people end up in her pack, and she hates that about herself.
Dylan Landis
#80. A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
Thomas Watson
#81. We receive our nourishment from the Mother Earth. So we should put our hands together in an attitude of prayer and say "please" and "thank you" when dealing with nature.
Masanobu Fukuoka
#82. Lord our time on earth is in your hands.
Lord determine and guide our steps.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#83. Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
Countee Cullen
#84. Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom.
Mary Slessor
#85. The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.
Ishmael Beah
#86. Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.
Luigi Orione
#87. We all have a divine light within us," Hayes says, breaking the moment, his hands in a prayer position at the center of his chest. "But it's our job to seek that divine light and let it shine. To take what's on the inside and show it on the outside. It is the only way to true enlightenment." As
Rebekah Crane
#88. The Blessing #1:
May your eyes be profitable,
may your ears be dutiful,
may your tongue be insightful,
may your hands be successful.
May your mind be fruitful,
may your heart be blissful,
may your soul be joyful,
may your life be peaceful.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#89. My story testifies to the truth that we must never give up on people, no matter how many times they fail or how long recovery takes. We must never underestimate the healing power of prayer and love in the hands of the Lord. We must never give up hope.
Walt Heyer
#90. Pray as if you are fully aware that the intricate timing and rotation of every celestial entity in the universe - including the coming and going of innumerable, precious life forms - does not rest in your tiny, mortal hands.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#91. As he hands me my case, he leans forward and tells me he'll say a prayer for me. I smile back at him and I thank him. I was wrong; feelings abound even with strangers and I was glad I booked a taxi and became a fare. If I had not, I'd be down a prayer.
Yvonne Joye
#92. Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
Thomas Watson
#93. Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun.
Epictetus
#94. every time she remembered something painful, she could lift it up with her hands in worship or prayer and God would take her brokenness like an offering.
Nancy Alcorn
#95. I pray Father that the work of my hands would be a blessing to all who I come into contact with.
Jennifer Allwood
#96. It is time that conservative people of faith jointly commit to praying for our nation (daily, fervently!) and also rise up hand in hand in an effort to raise up a new generation of Franklins and Washingtons and Lincolns and Reagans.
Jonathan Falwell
#97. I believe in miracles ... prayers that are answered and healing hands.
John McLeod
#98. Souls without prayer are like bodies, palsied and lame, having hands and feet they cannot use.
Teresa Of Avila
#99. Muttering something, Tant raised his hands to the sky as he walked beside me. I wasn't sure if it was a prayer or curse, but I distinctly heard "Why me?
Elizabeth Vaughan
#100. Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.
J.C. Ryle
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
