Top 100 We Pray Quotes
#1. Prayer is spiritual breathing; when we pray we breathe in the Holy Spirit; praying in the Holy Spirit (Jd. 1:20). Thus, all church prayers are the breathing of the Holy Spirit; as it were spiritual air and also light, spiritual fire, spiritual food and spiritual raiment.
John Of Kronstadt
#2. Faith that is lived from deep within amid a secularized world is the most powerful ecumenical force that brings us together, guiding us towards unity in the one Lord. And we pray to him, asking that we may learn to live the faith anew, and that in this way we may then become one
Pope Benedict XVI
#3. We pray because our life comes from God and we yield it back in prayer. Prayer is a great antidote to the illusion that we are self-made.
Walter Brueggemann
#4. Many think Jesus came to earth so you and I can have a special kind of spiritual experience and then go merrily along, as long as we pray and read our Bibles and develop intimacy with the unseen God but ignore the others-oriented life of justice and love and peace that Jesus embodied.
Scot McKnight
#6. Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away.
Abraham Lincoln
#7. When we pray and meditate sincerely and soulfully, we receive an open-hearted invitation from heaven.
Sri Chinmoy
#8. When we work, we work. When we pray, God works.
Hudson Taylor
#9. Above all, we pray that they will make the journey from selfishness to true love. Whether together or single, this is a journey we all have to make. In a sense it is the real journey of life.
Jane Ross-MacDonald
#10. Brothers, why are you here?" He looked
astonished, even perturbed.
"We come to help."
"I thought the monks and priests were to be in the church, praying."
"We pray with our feet," answered Anseau.
"Tell us how we can help.
D.W. Koons
#11. We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.
Pope John Paul II
#12. Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"
Bill Vaughan
#13. Lord fill the whole earth with your spirit, uphold us and our families with your righteous right hand of protection. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen!
Euginia Herlihy
#14. One misconception is that if we follow God in the life of faith, and that means obedience - that we read His Word, we're obedient, we pray, we go to church, we do the right things - that somehow His blessing means we're going to be okay.
Anne Graham Lotz
#15. If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth up. If we pray without reading the Word, we shall be ignorant of the mind and will of God, and become mystical and fanatical, and liable to be blown about by every wind of doctrine.
D.L. Moody
#16. We [the Amish] look alike. We pray alike. We live alike ... But none of these things mean we all think alike.
Jodi Picoult
#17. Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.
Michael E. DeBakey
#18. God is always close to us, whether we pray to him or not.
Paulo Coelho
#19. Hell, any plan that added "and then we pray" is not a trip to Disneyland.
J.R. Ward
#20. Do we desire such knowledge of God? Then two things follow. First, we must recognize how much we lack knowledge of God. We must learn to measure ourselves, not by our knowledge about God, not by our gifts and responsibilities in the church, but by how we pray and what goes on in our hearts.
J.I. Packer
#21. There are no perfect human beings and even those who we pray such as Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna among others, were not perfect.
Santosh Kalwar
#22. Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.
George Arthur Buttrick
#24. When we pray we speak to God;
but when we read, God speaks to us.
St. Jerome
#25. Where are the fish, though?"
"In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb.
Rudyard Kipling
#26. The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.
Henry B. Eyring
#27. The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye clear.
What we need is here.
Wendell Berry
#30. And when we feel forsaken, hopeless, and in despair, we pray to one who walked this path before us.
Adam Hamilton
#31. Our prayers can go where we cannot ... there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.
Brother Andrew
#32. We pray God would do it our way; we should pray we would do it God's way!
Brenda M. McGraw
#33. We all have bullets beneath our skin we pray our lovers won't flinch at when they find.
Andrea Gibson
#34. Too many times we pray for ease, but that's a prayer seldom met. What we need to do is pray for roots that reach deep into the Eternal, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be swept asunder.
Philip Gulley
#35. So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.
Roald Dahl
#36. The miracle of unity is being granted to us as we pray and work for it in the Lord's way. Our hearts will be knit together in unity. God has promised that blessing to His faithful Saints whatever their differences in background and whatever conflict rages around them.
Henry B. Eyring
#37. His memory is perfectly clear
and serves no good, no purpose
at all. He has seen things before
(the fly in the bottle,
the indeterminate will).
Santa Muerte, Saint Death,
we pray to you to swallow our breath.
Michael Palmer
#38. We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans ... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit.
Pope Theodoros II
#39. When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.
Eric Ludy
#40. Saint Francis. "When we pray to God," he said, "we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
Wayne W. Dyer
#41. We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
Harold S. Kushner
#42. The devil smiles when we make plans. He laughs when we get too
busy. But he trembles when we pray-especially when we pray together.
Corrie Ten Boom
#43. We pray against the domestic enemies of the Constitution, against this demon of tyranny who is using the White House occupant. That demonic spirit is oppressing us.
Gordon Klingenschmitt
#45. If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#46. Sometimes, when we pray for miracles what we are really praying for is God to do the work that we are too afraid to take action about. Often, the miracle resides in us and we need to simply "be all in", rather than standing on the fence waiting.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.
Plato
#48. We must continue in prayer if we are to get an outpouring of the Spirit. Christ says there are some things we shall not get, unless we pray and fast, yes, "prayer and fasting." We must control the flesh and abstain from whatever hinders direct fellowship with God.
Bonar Law
#49. We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.
Thomas Watson
#50. When we pray, we open the door for God to come into our problems and situations and work on them.
Joyce Meyer
#51. In this Year of Faith, we pray to the Lord that the Church may always be a true family that brings God's love to everyone.
Pope Francis
#52. Should we involve the police? Or should we pray?
S.A. David
#53. What is in our hearts when we pray has more effect on whether our prayers are answered than the actual prayer itself. That's why, when we come before God to pray, He asks us to first confess anything in our hearts that shouldn't be there. He does that so nothing will separate us from Him.
Stormie O'martian
#54. If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.
Isidore Of Seville
#55. The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#56. When we pray for miracles to everyone or everybody, we are spreading corruption through the pulpit.
Sunday Adelaja
#57. It's not so difficult to acknowledge that we lack wisdom. When we pray and seek God's wisdom with a longing for a deeper fullness of the life of Christ, then we will always find something to pursue.
Esther Smith
#58. There are certain things that we cannot understand, like why we pray five times a day, for example. But the fact that we choose to pray is understandable.
Tariq Ramadan
#59. When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.
Mark Batterson
#60. Prayer is not a machine. It is not magic. It is not advice offered to God. Our act, when we pray, must not, any more than all our other acts, be separated from the continuous act of God Himself, in which alone all finite causes operate.
C.S. Lewis
#61. We pray because we are unworthy to pray. Our prayers are heard precisely because we believe that we are unworthy. We become worthy to pray when we risk everything on God's faithfulness alone.
Martin Luther
#62. If you do not know the power of his indwelling life in you, shaping your personality, healing your brokenness, enabling you to live as he did - you have been plundered. This is why we pray,
John Eldredge
#63. we pray that God continues to strengthen her only son" Curtis
A.E. Via
#64. How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#65. 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
#66. Too often we pray to have patience, but we want it right now!
Robert D. Hales
#67. I want every health care professional, every first-responder, every citizen, every visitor to know that in Florida we continue to prepare for the worst. But we pray for the best.
Rick Scott
#68. The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as
Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions.
Philip Yancey
#69. If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.
Wayne Grudem
#70. Can we pray for the re-election of George Bush?
Sean Hannity
#71. In places in the world where we don't speak the same language, or even understand that we pray to the same God, we dance to the same beat, that is the ONE.
Debbie Allen
#72. We do our work for Jesus and with Jesus. It's not a matter of praying some times and working others. We pray the work.
Mother Teresa
#73. His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right.
Edmund Waller
#74. We pray to God for ourselves instead of the general good.
Sunday Adelaja
#75. We pray with our hands and often communicate with them. We use them to eat, work, and make love. We employ them as marvelously sophisticated instruments of flexibility and strength, and when they are damaged, we anguish.
Keith L. Moore
#77. Full moon calls thee
Shai-hulud shall thou see;
Red the night, dusky sky,
Bloody death didst thou die.
We pray to a moon: she is round
Luck with us will then abound,
What we seek for shall be found
In the land of solid ground.
Frank Herbert
#78. We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#80. We got a fightin' side a mile wide, but we pray for peace 'cause it's mostly us that end up servin' overseas.
Josh Thompson
#81. The devil is afraid of us when we pray and make sacrifices. He is also afraid when we are humble and good. He is especially afraid when we love Jesus very much. He runs away when we make the Sign of the Cross.
Anthony Of Padua
#82. Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle.
Stormie O'martian
#83. Instead of imagining all the things we can accomplish, we ask God to do what only he can accomplish. Yes, we work, we plan, we organize, and we create, but we do it all while we fast, while we pray, and while we constantly confess our need for the provision of God.
David Platt
#84. And real happiness will come, not in gratifying our desires or in gaining transient pleasures, but in accomplishing God's will for us: even as we pray every day: "Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#85. When we pray for the Spirit's help ... we will simply fall down at the Lord's feet in our weakness. There we will find the victory and power that comes from His love.
Andy Murray
#86. Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.
Eve Arden
#87. We faintly hear, we dimly see, In differing phrase we pray; But dim or clear, we own in Him The life, the truth, the way.
John Greenleaf Whittier
#88. When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.
Cyprian
#89. 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
#90. We often pray to Jesus; we pray to the Father, especially in the 'Our Father'; but not often to the Holy Spirit ... Pray often to the Holy Spirit so that He may help us, give us the strength, give us the inspiration and lead us forward.
Pope Francis
#92. We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#93. It is time we have more HOLY BIBLES in our homes rather than guns; time we pray together with our children and stay together in their lives.
James C. Uwandu
#94. When we pray, asking God to sanctify us, are we prepared to measure up to what that really means?
Oswald Chambers
#95. When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.
Judah Smith
#96. 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
#97. Physical constraints pale in comparison to mental ones. Now, repeat after me. We pray to Saint Anthony of Padua that the lost be found. That the soul be free. That life be everlasting.
Rebekah Crane
#98. We pray that as you walk the paths of life you will walk in ways that are straight with the strength to conform even though those paths be narrow.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#99. Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
#100. We cannot judge our prayer...by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.
Katherine Marie Dyckman
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