Prayer Quotes · Page 176

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers, there aren't any that go 'unanswered.' His silence speaks volumes if you're listening.

— Anonymous

“Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.”

— St. Augustine

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

— Joyce Meyer

Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going…

— John Shelby Spong

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not…

— Hubert Van Zeller

Sabbath rest is more than mere abstention from physical work; and, therefore, must include worship and Scripture-reading.

— Joseph Hertz

Will not the Lord hear my prayers and listen to my cries as soon as he ever did to theirs [the ancient…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations.

— Mercy Pheona

I am sustained by the prayers of the people in this country. I guess an appropriate way to say this, it's one…

— George W. Bush

In the life of the Indian there is only one inevitable duty-the duty of prayer-the daily recognition of the Unseen and Eternal.…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

The devil resists serious, focused prayer because he's defeated by it. And so the devil will try to attack our concentration in…

— Anne Graham Lotz

I asked Him to give me the prayers He wants me to pray and to give or withhold anything according to his…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“It's easy to be nice to people who don't mean that much to us. But if something matters to us, we will…

— Donna Goddard

“There is beauty in every incident of life; the true and the false, the wise and the foolish, are all one in…

— Aleister Crowley

Prayer is a walk with God…We can minister to the Lord as a group but I'll tell you one thing about it,…

— Kenneth E. Hagin

“It is dangerous for us to allow our difficulties to reside in the forefront of our thinking. Rather, our focus should always…

— Charles F. Stanley

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

— R. A. Torrey

Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting,…

— Karl Rahner

Sacrifice is the very essence of religion; ... Without sacrifice there is no true worship of God.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

God has not glo, yet he rules our world, He has not airtel,yet he makes a wonderful world, He is no mtn,yet…

— Gift Okoroji

God is not moved or impressed with our worship until our hearts are moved and impressed by Him.

— Ritu Ghatourey

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

— Hosea Ballou

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a…

— Matthew Henry

I find in the Psalms much the same range of mood and expression as I perceive within my own life of prayer.

— Reverend Malcolm Boyd

I still sing. I still lead worship. I mean, it's - who I am, it's what God has given me to do.

— Darlene Zschech

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

— Tony Campolo

“One of the greatest theological challenges of our time is to move our worship beyond self-absorption.”

— Kelly M. Kapic

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there.

— Delia Smith

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

— Ambrose

If you limit worship to where you are, the minute you leave that place of worship you will leave your attitude of…

— Tony Evans

“I would rather be on the team of the Leader who prays to God for wisdom to guide the followers, than to…

— Ellen J. Barrier

“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I…

— Flannery O'Connor

“If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.”

— Morris L. West

“Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes…

— Jerry Sittser

That's the best worship you can get when the worship leader is there with no other intentions and ready to sing their…

— Deborah Joy Winans

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can…

— A. C. Dixon

“In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you've been taught.”

— Paul E. Miller

Real prayer, the soul-transformi ng kind, is self-discontinu ity. It is a conscious act of self-suspension arising from the wish for something…

— Guy Finley

Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come…

— Charles Spurgeon

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel