Prayer Quotes · Page 132

The very heart of worship, as the Bible makes clear, is the business of expressing, from the depths of our spirits, the…

— R. C. Sproul

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

— Charles Studd

“Prayer is a many fingered and kaleidoscopic thing—it folds and unfolds inside of you. It enters the many rooms you cannot enter.”

— Cecilia Llompart

“The value of consistent prayer is not that [God] will hear us, but that we will hear Him.”

— William McGill

America is a nation of prayer. It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who…

— George W. Bush

“The hopeful lenses of our eyes are fixed on the busy hands of our dependable God... He is working hardly on our…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife…

— Gordon Brown

Thank you Lord for another beautiful day. For opening up my eyes & ears, to see and hear the goodness you have…

— Leah LaBelle

The Hopi Indians of Arizona believe that our daily rituals and prayers literally keep this world spinning on its axis. For me,…

— Brenda Peterson

“performed to the imaginary Vaastu Purusha. The place is scrupulously cleaned and a light is carried to the centre of the house…

— Rajender Menen

“There will be times in your life when you want to pray but feel so far from God that prayer seems impossible.…

— Colin S. Smith

It's too bad prayer comes bundled in a package of 'spiritual disciplines.' Really, we should see prayer as a spiritual privilege. We…

— Philip Yancey

“One person looks around and see a universe created by a God who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of…

— Mark Haddon

Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't…

— Melody Beattie

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in…

— Ann Bridge

If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Prayer will make you one with Jesus, and you can say with Saint Paul, “it is no longer I who live, but…

— Oscar Lukefahr

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.

— Nathan East

God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ.

— Paul Billheimer

Don't Just PRAY only when u see a TEMPLE Or MASJID Or CHRUCH Or GURUDWARA… PRAY when u see an AMBULANCE... your…

— KM II

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His…

— John Calvin

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Good poetry is like effective prayer, it feeds the human spirit, it nourishes, it puts us in touch with forces far greater…

— Lorna Goodison

“Anxiety is unable to relax in the face of chaos; continuous prayer clings to the Father in the face of chaos.”

— Paul E. Miller

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

— Saint Augustine

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as it is about convincing ourselves…

— Shane Claiborne

Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets…

— Rick Warren

“To great sections of the Church the art of worship has been lost entirely, and in its place has come that strange…

— A.W. Tozer

It is not stupid to have hopes about something even if you perfectly know that it will never happen..

— Sachithra

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

— Jill Briscoe

Prayer is hard work. We may neglect it because we're too tired, too busy, or too distracted to put into prayer the…

— Anne Graham Lotz

God speaks through a variety of means. In the present God primarily speaks by the Holy Spirit, through the Bible, prayer, circumstances,…

— Henry Blackaby

“Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer. However,”

— John G. Lake

Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel.

— Sallust

“I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.”

— Frederick Douglass

Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.

— John Stott

Pray, forgive yourself, appreciate others, trust your gut, do things you enjoy, and remind yourself that you are loved.

— Sandra Lumb

“God doesn’t lack in answer of prayers, we just lack in the art of true faith. #30WordsBook”

— Jarrid Wilson

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— Nick Cave