Prayer Quotes · Page 168

There are a lot of farmers and ranchers who are struggling. I get on my knees every day. If I had a…

— Tom Vilsack

“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

If God wants us to pray without ceasing, it is because He wants to answer without ceasing!

— Fred A. Hartley, Jr

The more you praise, the more vigor you will have for prayer; and the more you pray, the more matter you will…

— J. I. Packer

“But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading…

— Terry Pratchett

All great literature has an uncreeded and luminous theology behind it... Art [is] a form of active prayer.

— Melissa Pritchard

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

— Pope Francis

Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied,…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Be faithful to the time spent in prayer and make sure that at least half of your prayer is spent in silence.…

— Mother Teresa

“Dear Lord, thank You for answered prayers and humans who do Your work here on earth. Please send Your comfort to all…

— Guideposts

Prayer and encouraging words change things. We're all human. We all go through stuff. The hardest part about being a celebrity is…

— Al B. Sure

If you make your prayers an expression of gratitude and thanksgiving for the blessings you already have, instead of requests for things…

— Napoleon Hill

I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible,…

— Patti Smith

Before we took down the tree each year, Dad would always say a prayer that we would be together the next Christmas.…

— Catherine Hicks

There are few professing Christians, it may be feared, who strive to imitate Christ in the matter of private devotion. There is…

— J. C. Ryle

The Forgotten Man is delving away in patient industry, supporting his family, paying his taxes, casting his vote, supporting the church and…

— William Graham Sumner

Cut off from the Body into which alone the graces of Christ flow, you are deprived of the benefit of all prayers,…

— Edmund Campion

Those persons who know the deep peace of God, the unfathomable peace that passeth all understanding, are always men and women of…

— R. A. Torrey

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help…

— Dalai Lama

“If your prayers are not fertile, what are they? How do you make the Buddy System feminine? Pink is feminine.”

— Charlotte Fairchild

“Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those…

— George Dawson

For my workout, I'm up at 4 A.M. I say my prayers, count my blessings, and I work out right away. I…

— Richard Simmons

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Prayer bends the omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.”

— Anonymous

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held…

— Benjamin Franklin

We can only pray for one another but we can't use one another's faith. You have to use your own faith to…

— Larry J Cowell

“Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and…

— Ariana Carruth

God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.

— Anonymous

Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby.

— I. L. Peretz

We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.

— E. Stanley Jones

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Poetry and prayer put ideas in people’s heads that got them killed, distracting them from the ruthless mechanism of the world. After”

— Colson Whitehead

“The biggest misconception about success is "you're lucky". It's not a coincidence, it takes hard work. Prayer without work is dead.”

— Anderecco

“Prayer is that which conveys a message to God, who is either known or knowing, more or less by definition. Poetry is…

— G.C. Waldrep

“Prayers and wishes are worthless my friend, if they are not accompanied by tangible human actions.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The phrase “timing is everything” is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.”

— Stormie Omartian

“for mental prayer is nothing else, in my opinion, but being on terms of friendship with God, frequently conversing in secret with…

— Teresa of Ávila

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me…

— Elisabeth Elliot

God's sovereignty does not negate our responsibility to pray, but rather makes it possible for us to pray with confidence.

— Jerry Bridges

They are not leaders because of brilliancy. ...but because, by the power of prayer, they could command the power of God.

— Edward McKendree Bounds