Prayer Quotes

William bolitho - an adventure differs from a mere feat in that it...
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Theresa of Jesus
One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.
G. E. Lessing
John bunyan - prayer opens the heart to god, and it is the...
A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Oscar Wilde, An Ideal husband, 1893
If thou shouldst never see my face again, Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayerThan this world dreams of.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Heaven is full of answers to prayer for which no one bothered to ask.
Billy Graham
Serge kahili king - we are all connected to everyone and everything...
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Mother Teresa
A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.
Epicurus
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
Maya Angelou
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
Gerald R. Ford
Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind.
Prophet Mohammed, Muslim & Bukhari
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - Like writing a poem, or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain
I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.
Malcolm Boyd
Nothing costs so much as what is bought by prayers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.
Tyron Edwards
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men in praise we act like angels.
Thomas John Watson, Sr.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
Gandhi
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered - - That of neither has been answered fully.
Abraham Lincoln
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church it is a goodly Christian weapon.
Martin Luthe
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
Saint Teresa of Avila
To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
Saint Jerome
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
Herbert Clark Hoove
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
Voltaire
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Saint Augustine
Prayer is.... the salve on the wounds of our spirit that we order from God in our moments with Him.
Unknown
Prayer gives us the opportunity to speak to GOD, Meditation allows GOD to speak back to us.
Unknown
Father, we thank you, especially for letting me fly this flight... for the privilege of being able to be in this position, to be in this wondrous place, seeing all these many startling, wonderful things that you have created. Prayer while orbiting the earth in a space capsule.
L. Gordon Cooper, Jr.
Christmas - - That magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - - A day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
Augusta E. Rundell
Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.
Anouk Aimee
The fewer the words, the better the prayer.
Martin Luthe
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
Ambrose of Milan
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.
Hippocrates, Regimen