Prayer Quotes · Page 168

Failure to do the good that is within your power is hard to forgive. But mercy and prayer reclaim the negligent.

— Marcus Eremita

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.

— Samuel I. Prime

“What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a…

— Steve Goodier

“If our sermons are going to reach the hearts and consciences of the people, we must be much in prayer to God,…

— D.L. Moody

“The old, endless, approachable and always answering Sorrow," says my father Lucifer. "For who calls on me never goes unanswered. Only prayers…

— Robert Nye

If I call not thee in my prayers, if I keep not thee in my heart, thy love for me still waits…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“Mistakes remind me that I'm still human. Pain reminds me that I'm still alive. Trying reminds me that there's still hope.”

— Raymond D. Longoria Jr

“Our source of power is in the risen Christ, and we stay connected to Him by beholding Him in His Word and…

— Jerry Bridges

If youth is the period of hero-worship, so also is it true that hero-worship, more than anything else, perhaps, gives one the…

— Charles Horton Cooley

Perhaps nothing helps us make the movement from our little selves to a larger world than remembering God in gratitude. Such a…

— Henri Nouwen

“Prayers For Rain' begins like practically every Cure song, with an introduction that's longer than most Bo Diddley singles. Never mind the…

— Tom Reynolds

“When sorrows surround you few will comfort you. When happiness arises many will be part of the celebrations And when Tragedy happens…

— Sonny Cele

The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge…

— J. I. Packer

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we…

— Ravi Zacharias

“You have been called. Know that. Understand that. Imprint it deep in your heart and set out on your mission in whatever…

— Pooja Ruprell

Whether we write lyrics or craft legislation, sell homes or teach classes, design spaces or open franchises, prayer is a critical part…

— Mark Batterson

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in…

— Jeremy Lin

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

...And we pray, not for new earth or heaven, but to be quiet in heart, and in eye clear. What we need…

— Wendell Berry

You are the answer to my prayers you are the withdraw from my drugs you will always be by myside when your…

— Anonymous

It is however a disgrace to pray! Not for all, but for you, and me, and whoever has his a conscience.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Meditation goes in. Prayer goes out. But they both aim for the same place of union between you and the devine.

— Lisa Jones

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

— George Carlin

Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in…

— William Gurnall

You can get more with a simple prayer and a Thompson sub-machinegun than you can with a simple prayer alone.

— John Dillinger

“DeeDee had to have a firm grasp on reality. Yet she knew God was bigger than a pathology report. So she prayed.”

— K. Howard Joslin

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

— Mary Oliver

Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?

— Kristina McMorris

I pray everyday, all the time. Prayer is when you are actually experiencing a conversation with divine intelligence.

— John Assaraf

I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc

— David Brainerd

“When God gives law to us, we must give honour to him; when he speaks, we must bow our heads and worship.”

— Matthew Henry

Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers…

— Norman Vincent Peale

“St. Augustine says: " It would be an affront to pray for a martyr; we should [rather] commend ourselves to his prayers.'*”

— Joseph Pohle

A mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I need you to pray for me; I need you to care for me. I need you to want me to win.…

— Curtis Jackson

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

— Austin O'Malley

I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

— Charles L. Allen

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

— LeToya Luckett

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

— Don Howe

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.

— Blaise Pascal