Top 100 Prayers And Sayings
#1. Prayers and love are learned in the hour when prayer has become impossible and your heart has turned to stone.
Thomas Mann
#2. The greatest defect we have in our prayers and in all that happens to us, particularly in that which concerns tribulations, is our lack of confidence ... Faith is great or little according to the measure of our confidence.
Francis De Sales
#3. Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.
Cyprian
#4. HAN Ha, ha! Thy errant systems of belief - Thy weapons ancient, all thy mysteries, Thy robes and meditations o'er the air, Thy superstitions, e'en thy precious Force - Cannot compare to my religion true: A trusty blaster ever by my side. With thus I say my prayers and guard my soul.
Ian Doescher
#5. 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
#6. It is not only blessed to give thanks; it is also of vital importance to our prayer life in general. If we have noted the Lord's answers to our prayers and thanked Him for what we have received of Him, then it becomes easier for us, and we get more courage, to pray for more.
Ole Hallesby
#7. Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises.
Rick Yancey
#9. So often, we want big directional signs from God. God just wants us to pay attention. But we need to leave enough space in our days to get up from our prayers and actually look for God in the moment-to-moment things that happen.
Lysa TerKeurst
#10. There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.
John G. Lake
#11. In my midteens I went through a brief stage of religious fanaticism, but it was very much about just saying prayers and stuff like that, reciting rosaries and spending a lot of time on that kind of Catholic ritual.
Robert Crumb
#12. The value of prayers and affirmations are rooted not in the lyrical content of said language, but rather in the vibratory and numerical value of the words spoken.
Yuya T. Assaan-ANU
#13. Prayers and faith will not be enough, I'm afraid. The path of righteousness is often dangerous. Get ready, Vianne. This is only your first test. Learn from it." Mother
Kristin Hannah
#14. When people pray, they're choosing to believe there's a good, loving God reaching out to us, listening to our prayers, and meeting with us.
Ed Cyzewski
#15. You can. It's not a matter of feeling it, it's a matter of doing it - making the decision to bend that iron will of yours in God's direction so that He can hear your prayers and unleash blessings.
Julie Lessman
#16. The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity.
John Shelby Spong
#17. If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
Watchman Nee
#18. A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts.
David Jeremiah
#19. Like two old philosophers, Ashvin and James spoke of the ruin of their lives, their unfulfilled needs, their unanswered prayers and ultimately they were seduced by the phantom call to death by suicide its science, its poetry, its violence, its art.
Peter Akinti
#20. Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.
Aristotle.
#21. I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
J.C. Ryle
#22. All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.
Eric Hoffer
#23. It's a big world. Don't get trapped by tiny dreams and feeble problems. Time for big prayers and bold faith.
Louie Giglio
#25. Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.
Billy Sunday
#26. There are billions of gods in the world. They swarm as thick as herring roe. Most of them are too small to see and never get worshipped, at least by anything bigger than bacteria, who never say their prayers and don't demand much in the way of miracles.
Terry Pratchett
#27. ...it is certain that we must learn the value of being women committed to our prayers and faithful to our calling.
Neva Coyle
#28. 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
#29. He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
Jorge Luis Borges
#30. I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.
Roma Downey
#31. Peace in this life is based upon faith and testimony. We can all find hope from our personal prayers and gain comfort from the scriptures. Priesthood blessings lift us and sustain us. Hope also comes from direct personal revelation, to which we are entitled if we are worthy.
James E. Faust
#32. I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.
Shania Twain
#33. When God answers your prayers and sends down his blessings to you in prosperity, thank him by helping those in need. There's is no greater way to be thankful than helping to brighten humanity!
Timothy Pina
#34. I am deeply saddened to hear that the man who murdered my brother, Michael Ensley, has been charged with murder again. I grieve for every family who has been victimized by this heinous individual. My prayers and love go out to the family of Demetra Doyle Heard during this trying time.
Niecy Nash
#35. When I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
Gertrude Atherton
#36. Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.
Joyce Meyer
#37. Moonlight and prayers and glass and frost and wishes. That's what they look like.
Ashlee Willis
#38. Around the Godde there forms a Shelle of prayers and Ceremonies and Buildings and Priestes and Authority, until at Last the Godde Dies. Ande this maye notte be noticed.
Terry Pratchett
#39. Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#40. I thing that god is always listening to all my prayers.and i have so many dreams in my life.thats why I'm always praying that's someday I'm going to achieve all my dreams.
Oprah Winfrey
#41. May our gratitude find expression in our prayers and our service for others, and in our commitment to live wholly for Christ.
Billy Graham
#42. God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
#43. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Abraham Lincoln
#44. God in heaven will hear your prayers, and will answer them. He has never failed, if a man has been honest in his petitions and honest in his confessions. Let your faith beget patience. God is never in a hurry, said St. Augustine, because He has all eternity to work.
D.L. Moody
#45. Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?
Anne Bronte
#46. I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
Russell Simmons
#47. I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," ... do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.
Susan B. Anthony
#48. You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda)
It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much more than prayers and the lotus position. (Acheron)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. To imagine that God wants prayers and hymns of praise is to make him out to a sort of oriental potentate; while praying for favours is an attempt to get him to change his allegedly all-wise mind.
Barbara Smoker
#50. At best, I consider flying an unavoidable necessity, a time to resurrect forgotten prayers and contemplate the end of all joy in a twisted howling heap of machinery; at worst, I rank it right up there with psychotic episodes and torture at the hands of malevolent strangers.
T.C. Boyle
#51. If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.
Ana Monnar
#52. The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#53. The prayers and supplications that Christ offered up were, joined with strong cries and tears, herein setting us example not only to pray, but to be fervent and importunate in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wet ones, do we offer up to God!
Matthew Henry
#54. Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out.
Henry Van Dyke
#55. To take away a man's sanity, answer all his prayers and solve all his problems. Or give him everything and everyone he wants.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#56. read your Bible, go to church, say your prayers, and ask God to take care of you; then you need never fear dreams or anything else, for you must always remember that God has more power than the devil, and always will have.
Walter Hubbell
#57. The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
Saint Augustine
#58. Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.
Umar
#59. Ignore their heathen prayers and help us blow those little bastards [the Viet Cong] straight to Hell. Amen.
Hal Moore
#60. When I went public with my breast cancer diagnosis six weeks ago, the overwhelming outpouring of love, prayers and support really helped me heal faster. I want to make sure to thank everyone.
Giuliana Rancic
#61. Rituals, ceremonies, prayers, and special outfits are inevitable, but they do not - they cannot - express the heart of what the Buddha taught. In fact, all too often, such things get in the way. They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it.
Steve Hagen
#62. Say your prayers. And I'll say mine. Because I really think it helps.
Benjamin Carson
#63. Thank you to all for your prayers and good wishes. It gave me the strength to persevere and warmed my heart.
Steven Cojocaru
#64. Brilliant ideas are gifts from God, sent to you in answer to your prayers ... and all you need to do is act upon the ideas, one divinely guided step at a time. If you want to validate if an idea is truly heavensent, ask your angels to send you clear signs.
Doreen Virtue
#65. We are inviting you to invest yourself through the resources that God has given you - your energy, your prayers and your money - in this work to which God has called us.
Henri
#66. All my work, all my efforts, all my prayers and tears are for humanity, and the spread of peace and love among mankind.
Mary Baker Eddy
#67. Nothing but a miracle of sovereign mercy could have arrested and saved me from eternal perdition. How I could have so long resisted the entreaties, the prayers, and the tears of my dear parents, and the influences of the Holy Spirit, is, to me, a wonder entirely incomprehensible.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
#68. If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.
Mark Wahlberg
#69. Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.
Mark Batterson
#71. We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and then the vending machine dispenses these prayers based upon how well we've followed the rules that someone else has told us are God's rules.
Wayne Dyer
#72. Their sighing, canting, grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
Robert Burns
#73. Why creeds and prayers and mackintoshes? when, thought Clarissa, that's the miracle, that's the mystery; that old lady, she meant, whom she could see going from chest of drawers to dressing-table.
Virginia Woolf
#74. Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise.
Elora Bishop
#75. Talk of poems and prayers and promises, and things that we believe in. How sweet it is to love someone, how right it is to care, how long it's been since yesterday.
John Denver
#76. In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on.
Mandy Patinkin
#77. I was drunk: Christian and drunk. They just don't go together. But that's what happened. And the next day, obviously God had honored those prayers and healed me of alcoholism.
Jim Hamilton
#78. God does not send the problem; genetics, chance, and bad luck do that. And God cannot make the problem go away, no matter how many prayers and good deeds we offer. What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned. In
Harold S. Kushner
#79. Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
Douglas Coupland
#80. God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
#81. [P]salms are basically prayers and hymns, by their very nature they are addressed to God or express truth about God in song.
Gordon Fee
#82. I want to teach him his prayers and his letters and his manners. I want him for my own. Not just because he is motherless, but because I am childless and I want someone to love.
Philippa Gregory
#83. Prayers and wishes should always be good, but we all think bad thoughts when our feelings get hurt. It's human, V." -Mom
Brenda Woods
#84. Give a man with a death wish a bottle of whisky and a loaded gun, you get a dead body. Give a martyr a quote from scripture and a pocket full of
prayers and you get a room full of corpses.
Kevis Hendrickson
#85. A day without morning and evening prayers and personal intercessions is actually a day without meaning or importance.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#86. Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even. Comfort the ones i've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gustoand do what's' right and finish strong.
George H. W. Bush
#87. The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key.
Russell Sherman
#88. My writing habits are pretty static. I get up every morning between 6 and 7 am, grab a cup of coffee, say a few prayers, and go downstairs to my office and start writing.
Mitch Albom
#89. We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable.
Jewel
#90. As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations tob e induced to rise, but immediately shines and is saluted by all, so do you also not wait for clappings of hands and shouts of praise tob e induced to do good, but be a doer of good voluntarily and you will be beloved as much as the sun.
Epictetus
#91. I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.
Franklin Graham
#92. God had not answered her mother's prayers and she doubted He would answer hers.
Sarah E. Ladd
#93. Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.
Alice McDermott
#94. Nevertheless, some people are afraid to pray. They hear others speak beautiful prayers and become self-conscious. God, however, cares less about beautiful words than a humble heart.
Ken Golden
#95. [I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking of advice, we must reject and consider as a temptation whatever is suggested to the contrary.
Vincent De Paul
#96. What good are prayers and shrines to a person mad with love? The flame keeps gnawing into her tender marrow hour by hour, and deep in her heart the silent wound lives on.
Virgil
#97. Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
Barbara Johnson
#98. Faithfully obeying God's commandments is essential to receiving the Holy Ghost. We are reminded of this truth each week as we listen to the sacrament prayers and worthily partake of the bread and water.
David A. Bednar
#99. You can avoid Jesus as Savior by keeping all the moral laws. If you do that, then you have "rights." God owes you answered prayers, and a good life, and a ticket to heaven when you die. You don't need a Savior who pardons you by free grace, for you are your own Savior.
Timothy Keller
#100. Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.
Ruth Hurmence Green
