Praying Quotes · Page 11

“The sweetness of prayer is the prosperity of the soul.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Communication with God is vital to a vibrant relationship with him. We will never really know God in an intimate, personal relationship…

— Anne Graham Lotz

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now,…

— Lionel Blue

Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

— D. A. Carson

Morality will be very difficult for the man who does not pray.

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say…

— Alexander Payne

I have great love for Saint Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have an…

— Pope Francis

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by…

— Elisabeth Elliot

The more we pray, the more we sense our need to pray. And the more we sense a need to pray, the…

— Jim Cymbala

I've been really, really fortunate to have a mother that has spent many, many long hours on her knees praying for me.…

— Jay DeMarcus

I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments…

— Alicia Keys

I read all the speeches of the pope, his commentaries, and if the pope continues this way, I will go back to…

— Raul Castro

Admittedly, repentance is not always easy; I suppose it would not be true repentance if it were. It can also take a…

— David S. Baxter

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand…

— Frederick Buechner

Okay, but if you try to get me to pray with you, I walk.

— Richelle Mead

They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.

— Adam Clarke

One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.

— R. C. Sproul

Do not stop praying as long as, by God's grace, the fire and the water have not been exhausted, for it may…

— John Climacus

I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that…

— Geraldine Brooks

Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing…

— John Bunyan

If I've been hurt, I'm not one of those people who can hide it or bury it deep within. I give myself…

— Kelly Stables

In modern day evangelism, this precious doctrine [of regeneration] has been reduced to nothing more than a human decision to raise one's…

— Paul Washer

If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human…

— John of Kronstadt

When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.

— Oprah Winfrey