Top 100 Quotes About Prayers
#1. As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
Artur Davis
#2. I have confidence that my prayers are answered because I sought God's will before I asked.
Davin Whitehurst
#3. When we pray "in the Name of Jesus" the answers are in accordance with His nature, and if we think our prayers are unanswered it is because we are not interpreting the answer along this line.
Oswald Chambers
#4. It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul.
Therese Of Lisieux
#5. Elisa thought how empty the prayers sounded. The words rattled around in the ancient rafters and then returned to them like dead leaves falling from the trees. No life. No shade of hope. Only a cold wind that blew into their very souls.
Bodie Thoene
#6. The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.
Arthur W. Pink
#7. For me, writing has always felt like praying, even when I wasn't writing prayers, as I was often enough. You feel that you are with someone.
Marilynne Robinson
#8. If we just had more revelation of what we already have, there would be far less prayers and far more praise.
Watchman Nee
#9. And me, standing under the splintered night,
catching fractured glimpses into the black behind the black,
hearing the prayers of stars, the angry whispers of the dark summer night.
Its voice cracks,
on your name.
My eyes close,
on your name.
Marlen Komar
#10. Does god need our prayers? No. God doesn't need anything. A god in need is not a god indeed. So why do we pray? We pray out of a sense of gratitude. Prayer is a thank you. We feel better when we have offered our gratitude to the creator. Prayer is for our emotional and spiritual edification
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#11. My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.
Shanna Moakler
#12. The only way you can pray with absolute faith is to be confident that your prayers are in line with the revealed will of God, His Word.
Sunday Adelaja
#13. Prayers can be whatever you wish them to be. They can be short or long requests, expressions of gratitude and affirmations that your requests are being honored.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#14. When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
#15. 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
#16. God who knows all things, I have no prayer book and I do not know any prayers by heart. But you know all the prayers. You are God. So this is what I am going to do. I am going to say the alphabet, and I will let you put the words together.
Neil Gaiman
#17. People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
Rick Warren
#18. If you want your prayers answered, you get off your knees and do the one thing you're praying someone else will do for you.
Shannon L. Alder
#19. Pray because Christ died to give us access to the Father. Pray because God is worthy of our praise. Pray because we need His forgiveness, cleansing, guidance, and protection. Pray because others need our prayers.
Billy Graham
#20. I've found that prayers work best when you have big players.
Knute Rockne
#21. Love prays for others - as long as the prayers are needed. - Jeanette Gardner Littleton
Gary Chapman
#22. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
William Gurnall
#23. Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.
David Jeremiah
#24. Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test ... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
Rick Warren
#25. 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
#26. Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers, sacrifices, and Sacraments.
Edmund Campion
#27. The earth is not supposed to be developed and civilized by prayers alone, the earth is supposed to be civilized by hard work, labour and diligence.
Sunday Adelaja
#28. This used to be among my prayers - a piece of land not so very large, which would contain a garden
Horace
#29. You are the destroyer of my Soul; You are my Murderer, and on you fall the curse of my death and my unborn Infant's! Insolent in your yet-unshaken virtue, you disdained the prayers of a Penitent; But
Matthew Gregory Lewis
#30. 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
#31. Faith asks no signal from the skies, To show that prayers accepted rise, Our Priest is in His holy place, And answers from the throne of grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#32. Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.
Alberto Gonzales
#33. I came because I wanted to be the one to break the news to you. No amount of prayers, confessions in a wooden booth, counting rosary beads, kneeling before a cross, or fasting will purify a soul. Once you've welcomed evil inside you, there is no turning back. Heaven will reject you.
Ashlan Thomas
#34. Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
Radhanath Swami
#35. The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.
Sigrid Undset
#36. Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.
Theodore L. Cuyler
#37. Our Christianity has been so compromised that we have started treating prayers as incantations.
Sunday Adelaja
#38. 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
#39. I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.
Lewis Carroll
#40. Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#42. If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
Madeleine L'Engle
#43. If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde
#44. I am a religious person and rely heavily on prayers.
Katrina Kaif
#45. The size of prayers depends on the size of our God. And if God knows no limits, then neither should our prayers.
Mark Batterson
#46. I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.
Jean Ingelow
#47. We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God's work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
Corrie Ten Boom
#48. I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.
Peyton Manning
#49. All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#50. I prayed the Lord would sort (my prayers) out and answer as needed. Above all that he would hurry.
Leif Enger
#51. Even if God were here, it wouldn't do any good. The entire human race has reached the point where no one is listening to their prayers.
Liu Cixin
#52. Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
Norman Vincent Peale
#53. We don't believe 'in the power of prayer,' but in our all-powerful God who empowers our inherently powerless prayers." - Burk Parsons
Randy Alcorn
#54. What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating,
Christopher Hitchens
#55. Prayers, Hestians believed, fly out into the ether and are heard or not heard, but their work is always done within.
Kevin Brennan
#56. I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers.
Melissa Rivers
#57. One day enough work will have been done. Enough prayers will have been said. Enough confidence will have been formed. One day with effortless certainty your dreams will manifest into physical form; proving dreams really can come true.
Renae A. Sauter
#58. The savage prays to a stone that he calls a god, while the Christian prays to a god he calls a spirit, and the prayers of both are equally useful.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#59. 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
#60. I wish more people knew Steve Howe the way I knew him. His struggles in life were well documented, but he always tried to fight through them and I will always respect that. My thoughts and prayers go out wife Cindy and his family.
Brian Cashman
#61. She tried to pray but her prayers felt far away, remnants of another woman's body.
Kristen Hannah
#62. I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road ... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.
Amin Maalouf
#63. They talked, too, of their futures, as if they could shape the glittering course of their destinies with secret confessions offered like prayers to the room's benevolent hush.
Libba Bray
#64. 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
#65. God did not hear the prayers of the fearful, for the hearts of the fearful held no belief.
Jeremy Leven
#66. Do you think the Devil is real then?" she asked. If God wasn't up in heaven answering a desperate mother's prayers then maybe Satan didn't exist either.
"He is real," Gabriel answered quietly, his voice almost a whisper. "I look him in the eye every day.
Evangeline Ravencraft
#67. If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#68. It was of tremendous comfort. I always said my prayers at night. My mother taught actually me to say prayers at night but most of it came from the church.
Wesley Clark
#69. Miserable men are we if we miss the aid of your prayers, but happy are we if we live in your supplications.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#70. I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
John Piper
#71. Long prayers either consist of repetitions or of unnecessary explanations which God does not require.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#72. Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers ... can move the very heart of God who created the universe?
Joni Eareckson Tada
#73. Now. If any habits ever had time to fix upon her, they would have operated here. Habits are peculiar things. They will drive the really non-religious mind out of bed to say prayers that are only a custom and not a devotion. The victim of habit, when he has
Theodore Dreiser
#74. The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#75. He doesn't believe the dead need our prayers, nor can they use them. But anyone who knows the Bible as he does, knows that our God is a capricious God, and there's no harm in hedging your bets.
Hilary Mantel
#76. I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God.
Susan Jacoby
#77. God is not ignoring your prayers, He is working behind the scene perfecting all that concerns you, praise Him.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#78. A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.
Seneca The Younger
#79. Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Anne Lamott
#80. God's most common way of answering prayers is through people. But for that to work, Christians must pay attention and listen, we must put ourselves in a position to see others' needs, and we must respond when God calls.
Adam Hamilton
#82. We impoverish God in our minds when we say there must be answers to our prayers on the material plane; the biggest answers to our prayers are in the realm of the unseen.
Oswald Chambers
#83. corporate worship is what happens when the body of Christ assembles to hear with one heart and speak with one voice the words, praises, prayers, petitions, and thanks fitting to Christian worship.
Constance M. Cherry
#84. I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.
Alexander Whyte
#85. I am here in spirit with you and you are in my prayers. Remember God is with you, and have faith in the fact that this too shall pass.
Michael Jackson
#86. There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.
John G. Lake
#87. Funny thing about prayers. God hears them. But you just never know if, when, or how He's going to answer them.
Becky Wade
#88. Long, discursive, dry, and inane are the prayers in many pulpits. Without unction or heart, they fall like a killing frost on all the graces of worship. Death-dealing prayers they are. Every vestige of devotion has perished under their breath. The deader they are the longer they grow.
E. M. Bounds
#89. 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
#90. God's signs are not always the ones we look for. We learn in tragedy that his purposes are not always our own. Yet the prayers of private suffering, whether in our homes or in this great cathedral, are known and heard, and understood.
George W. Bush
#91. Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.
L.M. Montgomery
#92. If we are to have our prayers answered, we must give God the glory.
Billy Graham
#93. God never answers prayers. It is people who answer their own prayers by knowing how to connect and utilize the divine energy of the Creator and the God-like force in their own souls.
Yehuda Berg
#94. Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
J.C. Ryle
#95. 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
#96. We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul.
Charles Spurgeon
#97. A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
Brother Lawrence
#98. Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.
Max Lucado
#99. The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.
James Martineau
#100. There is no music like a little river's ... It takes the mind out-of-doors ... and ... it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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