Prayer Quotes
4623 Prayer quotes by 1779 unique authors
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
— Garth Brooks
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Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine.
— Geraldine Brooks
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A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
— Phillips Brooks
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
— Phillips Brooks
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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great…
— Luke Bryan
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are…
— Samuel Butler
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To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is…
— Sholom Aleichem
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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our…
— John Calvin
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In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.
— Tony Campolo
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You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life.…
— Benjamin Carson
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The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood; we are complex systems. Patients do better when they…
— Benjamin Carson
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My suggestion to newspapers everywhere is to give the public a reason to read them again. So here's an idea: get on a big story…
— Graydon Carter
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My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
— Jimmy Carter
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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
— Richard Cecil
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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
— Oswald Chambers
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Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall…
— Maria Weston Chapman
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The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a farmer who, having sown…
— James Allen
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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
— Adam Clarke
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Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.
— Leonard Cohen
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Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
— Alan Cohen
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between…
— William Ames
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It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who…
— Thomas Aquinas
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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