Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul.
- Matthew Kelly
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
- Jodi Picoult
Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.
- Jodi Picoult
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
- Alexandre Dumas
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
- Susan B Anthony
My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.
- Amelia Atwater Rhodes
Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were answered. Go east, I'll lend them west."
"We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?
- Melina Marchetta
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
- Philip James Bailey
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
- Karl Barth
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
- Charles Baudelaire
Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.
- Alistair Begg
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
- Charles Bent
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
- Charles Bent
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
A prayer is a chat with thy God.
- Toba Beta
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
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
- Corrie Ten Boom
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
- Malcolm Boyd
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
- Frederick Buechner
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
- John Bunyan
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
- Alexis Carrel
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
- Oswald Chambers
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer that craves a particular commodityanything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the self so that the Word of God can break in and make us new. Prayer unmasks. Prayer converts. Prayer impels. Prayer sustains us on the way. Pray for the grace it will take to continue what you would like to quit.
- Joan D Chittister
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
- Alexander Cockburn
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
- Leonard Cohen
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
- Don Delillo
Some say that prayer is talking to God while meditation is listening to Him. Works for me.
- Doug Dillon
Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Young man, do not forget to pray. Each time you pray, if you do so sincerely, there will be the flash of a new feeling in it, and a new thought as well, one you did not know before, which will give you fresh courage; and you will understand that prayer is education.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Prayer is an education.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
- David James Duncan
the only unfailing guide I've ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love's flame is so fragile... keeping one's love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.
- David James Duncan
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
- Jonathan Edwards
Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about being long-suffering-no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk.
- John Eldredge
Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candidnecessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?
- George Eliot
...to many of us prayer is more like talking to a chocolate pudding than participating in an amazing relationship with a living being.
- Peter Enseleit
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
- Victor Hugo
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
- Billy Graham
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
- Kelsey Grammer
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is the great gift which our Eternal Father has given us by which we may approach Him and speak with Him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be prayerful. You cannot make it alone. You cannot reach your potential alone. You need the help of the Lord.
- Gordon B Hinckley
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God.
We must always remember this.
The actual words matter less.
- Pope John Xxiii
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
- E Stanley Jones
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
- E Stanley Jones
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
- E Stanley Jones
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
- E Stanley Jones
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
- John Ortberg Jr
Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing
- John F Macarthur Jr
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
- Madame De Stael
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
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
- Mother Teresa
The fruit of Silence is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer is Faith
The fruit of Faith is Love
The fruit of Love is Service
The fruit of Service is Peace
- Mother Teresa
The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace
- Mother Teresa
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.
- Sue Monk Kidd
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
- Martin Luther
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
- Martin Luther
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
- Martin Luther
Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
- D Martyn Lloyd Jones
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
- Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is a great tower of strength, a pillar of unending righteousness, a mighty force that moves mountains and saves souls. Through it the sick are healed, the dead are raised, and the Holy Spirit is poured out without measure upon the faithful.
- Bruce R Mcconkie
Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
- Josh Mcdowell
Prayer is the pulsation of a yearning, loving heart in tune with the Infinite. It is a message of the soul sent directly to a loving Father. The language is not mere words.
- David O Mckay
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
- George Meredith
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.
- Thomas Merton
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
- Thomas Merton
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.
- Andrew Murray
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
- Andrew Murray
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.
- Andrew Murray
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.
- Henri Nouwen
a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
- Henri Nouwen
the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.
- Henri Nouwen
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
- Austin Omalley
I listen to the sound of India's voices for the last time. Laughter ripples like water. A prayer is a single note held long. There is so much life here. And too much death.I feel a soft brezze caress my face and I look up. An orange ribbon is floating through the air. In India , it's easy to see the wind.
- Cathy Ostlere
Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
- Boyd K Packer
The last great humanitarian that tried to win the presidency was Robert F. Kennedy. As hard as he tried...He wasn't allowed to finish the work of trying to bring America together & to heal our nation. My prayer is that we may now all come together now and stop the hate, stop the obstruction and help our President continue to restore & rebuild our nation! The greater America becomes...the brighter humanity will be!
- Timothy Pina
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy
- John Piper
Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering." Book: Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddist in the World
- Mary Bray Pipher
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
- Nick Rahall
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
- Nick Rahall
Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.
- Amit Ray
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
- Boyd Rice
Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations
- Aditia Rinaldi
A temple, first of all, is a place of
prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man
seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy
sanctuary--a temple.
- B H Roberts
Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.
- Craig Silvey
[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people's needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.
- Charles Stanley
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
- Edith Stein
We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.
- Amy Wilson Carmichael
Prayer is mans greatest power!
- W Clement Stone
Prayer is helplessness plus faith.
- Bill Thrasher
One, just one, but definitely one of the great benefits of private prayer is that you can't hide from your motives. In corporate prayer, we can sound like "all that". We can blow Jesus smoke like nobody's bizness in a crowd but, get alone with Him, and He won't let you get away with the fake stuff. Try blowing Jesus smoke in your prayer closet and you'll cough on it every time. Truth? That penetrating gaze of His hurts, but afterwards, it never fails to heal.
- Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper
If you want to protect me, prayer is just as powerful a weapon as that gun you carry.
- Karen Witemeyer
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
- Frank R Wolf
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.
- N T Wright
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
- Philip Yancey
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
- Philip Yancey
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
- Philip Yancey
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
- Loretta Young
- Matthew Kelly
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
- Jodi Picoult
Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.
- Jodi Picoult
Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
- Alexandre Dumas
I pray every single moment of my life; not on my knees but with my work. My prayer is to lift women to equality with men. Work and worship are one with me.
- Susan B Anthony
My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.
- Amelia Atwater Rhodes
Finn, listen!" Trevanion said, his voice raw."I prayed to see you one more time. It's all I prayed for. Nothing more. And my prayers were answered. Go east, I'll lend them west."
"We have a dilemma, then," Finnikin said fiercely. "Because I prayed that you would grow old and hold my children in your arms as you held me. My prayers have not been answered yet, Trevanion. So whose prayer is more worthy? Yours or mine?
- Melina Marchetta
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
- Saint Teresa Of Avila
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
- Philip James Bailey
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.
- Karl Barth
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
- Charles Baudelaire
Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.
- Alistair Begg
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
- Charles Bent
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God.
- Charles Bent
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
A prayer is a chat with thy God.
- Toba Beta
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
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
- Corrie Ten Boom
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
- Malcolm Boyd
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
- Frederick Buechner
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
- John Bunyan
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
- Alexis Carrel
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
- Oswald Chambers
The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
- Oswald Chambers
Prayer that craves a particular commodityanything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Spirituality without a prayer life is no spirituality at all, and it will not last beyond the first defeats. Prayer is an opening of the self so that the Word of God can break in and make us new. Prayer unmasks. Prayer converts. Prayer impels. Prayer sustains us on the way. Pray for the grace it will take to continue what you would like to quit.
- Joan D Chittister
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
- Alexander Cockburn
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
- Leonard Cohen
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.
- Don Delillo
Some say that prayer is talking to God while meditation is listening to Him. Works for me.
- Doug Dillon
Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Young man, do not forget to pray. Each time you pray, if you do so sincerely, there will be the flash of a new feeling in it, and a new thought as well, one you did not know before, which will give you fresh courage; and you will understand that prayer is education.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Prayer is an education.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
- David James Duncan
the only unfailing guide I've ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love's flame is so fragile... keeping one's love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.
- David James Duncan
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
- Martin Luther King Jr
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
- Jonathan Edwards
Part of me knows that prayer is essential; another part of me would rather turn on the TV and check out. And that whole bit about being long-suffering-no way. Part of me wants to just get drunk.
- John Eldredge
Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candidnecessarily goes to the roots of action? Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?
- George Eliot
...to many of us prayer is more like talking to a chocolate pudding than participating in an amazing relationship with a living being.
- Peter Enseleit
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
- Victor Hugo
The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
- Billy Graham
Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.
- Billy Graham
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
- Kelsey Grammer
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is the great gift which our Eternal Father has given us by which we may approach Him and speak with Him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be prayerful. You cannot make it alone. You cannot reach your potential alone. You need the help of the Lord.
- Gordon B Hinckley
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.
- Ernest Holmes
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God.
We must always remember this.
The actual words matter less.
- Pope John Xxiii
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
- E Stanley Jones
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
- E Stanley Jones
Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
- E Stanley Jones
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
- E Stanley Jones
The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God.
Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.
- John Ortberg Jr
Prayer is the spontaneous response of the believing heart to God. Those truly transformed by Jesus Christ find themselves lost in wonder and joy of communion with Him. Prayer is as natural for the Christian as breathing
- John F Macarthur Jr
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
- Madame De Stael
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
Prayer is the mortar that holds our house together.
- Mother Teresa
The fruit of Silence is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer is Faith
The fruit of Faith is Love
The fruit of Love is Service
The fruit of Service is Peace
- Mother Teresa
The Simple Path
Silence is Prayer
Prayer is Faith
Faith is Love
Love is Service
The Fruit of Service is Peace
- Mother Teresa
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.
- Sue Monk Kidd
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.
- Martin Luther
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
- Martin Luther
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
- Martin Luther
Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.
- D Martyn Lloyd Jones
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
- Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is a great tower of strength, a pillar of unending righteousness, a mighty force that moves mountains and saves souls. Through it the sick are healed, the dead are raised, and the Holy Spirit is poured out without measure upon the faithful.
- Bruce R Mcconkie
Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
- Josh Mcdowell
Prayer is the pulsation of a yearning, loving heart in tune with the Infinite. It is a message of the soul sent directly to a loving Father. The language is not mere words.
- David O Mckay
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
- George Meredith
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.
- Thomas Merton
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
- Thomas Merton
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
- Kathleen Norris
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.
- Andrew Murray
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
- Andrew Murray
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.
- Andrew Murray
Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.
- Henri Nouwen
a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
- Henri Nouwen
the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.
- Henri Nouwen
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
- Austin Omalley
I listen to the sound of India's voices for the last time. Laughter ripples like water. A prayer is a single note held long. There is so much life here. And too much death.I feel a soft brezze caress my face and I look up. An orange ribbon is floating through the air. In India , it's easy to see the wind.
- Cathy Ostlere
Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
- Boyd K Packer
The last great humanitarian that tried to win the presidency was Robert F. Kennedy. As hard as he tried...He wasn't allowed to finish the work of trying to bring America together & to heal our nation. My prayer is that we may now all come together now and stop the hate, stop the obstruction and help our President continue to restore & rebuild our nation! The greater America becomes...the brighter humanity will be!
- Timothy Pina
Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles us as needy and exalts God as wealthy
- John Piper
Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering." Book: Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddist in the World
- Mary Bray Pipher
For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.
- Nick Rahall
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
- Nick Rahall
Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.
- Amit Ray
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
- Boyd Rice
Our parents prayer is the most beautiful poetry and expectations
- Aditia Rinaldi
A temple, first of all, is a place of
prayer; and prayer is communion with God. It is the 'infinite in man
seeking the infinite in God.' Where they find each other, there is holy
sanctuary--a temple.
- B H Roberts
Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.
- Craig Silvey
[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people's needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.
- Charles Stanley
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.
- Edith Stein
We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.
- Amy Wilson Carmichael
Prayer is mans greatest power!
- W Clement Stone
Prayer is helplessness plus faith.
- Bill Thrasher
One, just one, but definitely one of the great benefits of private prayer is that you can't hide from your motives. In corporate prayer, we can sound like "all that". We can blow Jesus smoke like nobody's bizness in a crowd but, get alone with Him, and He won't let you get away with the fake stuff. Try blowing Jesus smoke in your prayer closet and you'll cough on it every time. Truth? That penetrating gaze of His hurts, but afterwards, it never fails to heal.
- Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
- Martin Farquhar Tupper
If you want to protect me, prayer is just as powerful a weapon as that gun you carry.
- Karen Witemeyer
My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results.
- Frank R Wolf
Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.
- N T Wright
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
- Philip Yancey
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. Most of my struggles in the Christian life circle around the same two themes: why God doesn't act the way we want God to, and why I don't act the way God wants me to. Prayer is the precise point where those themes converge.
- Philip Yancey
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
- Philip Yancey
I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.
- Loretta Young
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