Prayer Quotes

4623 Prayer quotes by 1779 unique authors

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying. — A B Simpson
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. — Ruth Graham
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. — George Meredith
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. — Philip James Bailey
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need. — Edward McKendree Bounds
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. — Richard J. Needham
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing. — Francis of Assisi
I desire no other proof of Christianity than the Lord's Prayer. — Madame de Stael
A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. — Robert Louis Stevenson
You pray and make your requests made known unto God, and God will do something.' It is not your prayer that is going to do… — David Lloyd-Jones
Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray… — Oswald Chambers
Some Christians want enough of Christ to be identified with him but not enough to be seriously inconvenienced; they genuinely cling to basic Christian orthodoxy… — D. A. Carson
I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides… — Louis Agassiz
If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate. — Jerry Falwell
People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment...… — Cal Thomas
My last vestige of 'hands off religion' respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11th 2001, followed by the 'National Day of… — Richard Dawkins
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin
As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring. — Robert Green Ingersoll
All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way. — John Shelby Spong
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan
I am proud to be a Christian. I believe not only as a Christian, but as a scientist as well. A wireless device can deliver… — Guglielmo Marconi
But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our… — Mark Twain
If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray? — Dan Barker

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