Prayer Quotes

4623 Prayer quotes by 1779 unique authors

When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present. — Iyanla Vanzant
It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin. — Brent Weeks
Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us. — Edgar Cayce
You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold… — Henri Nouwen
It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called. — Henri Nouwen
Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern,… — Henri Nouwen
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity...… — Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view. — Philip Yancey
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers. — Marilynne Robinson
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied… — Fulton J. Sheen
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one… — Doc Hastings
I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on.… — Bernhard Langer
To be conscious of being poor while praying for riches is to be rewarded with that which you are conscious of being, namely, poverty. Prayers… — Neville Goddard
With your desire defined, quietly go within and shut the door behind you. Lose yourself in your desire; feel yourself to be one with it;… — Neville Goddard
This is our Lord’s will, that our prayer and our trust be both alike large. For if we trust not as much as we pray,… — Julian of Norwich
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind — Boyd Rice
Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence. — Rich Mullins
What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s special gift to us… — Joseph Bernardin
They [Bishops] shall also banish from churches all those kinds of music, in which, whether by the organ, or in the singing, there is mixed… — Pope Pius IV
As you consider your own life, are there things that you need to change? Have you made mistakes that still need to be corrected? If… — C. Scott Grow
Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were… — Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Dear Father, take this days life into Thine own keeping. Control all my thoughts and feelings. Direct all my energies. Instruct my mind. Sustain my… — John Baillie
This doctrine of the material efficacy of prayer reduces the Creator to a cosmic bellhop of a not very bright or reliable kind. — Herbert J. Muller
If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than… — Evagrius Ponticus
There is a prayer intended to give strength to people faced with circumstances they don’t want to accept. The power of the prayer comes from… — Mary Alice

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