Prayer Quotes

4623 Prayer quotes by 1779 unique authors

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray… — Phillips Brooks
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born.… — Amy Carmichael
Every work undertaken in obedienced to a divine command, whether the work be that form of conflict with the powers of darkness that we call… — Amy Carmichael
Prayer in private results in boldness in public. — Edwin Louis Cole
The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life. — Timothy Keller
A triune God would call us to converse with him . . . because he wants to share the joy he has. Prayer is our… — Timothy Keller
Prayer is our way of entering into the happiness of God himself — Timothy Keller
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive… — Saint Augustine
A culture that does not teach prayer soon runs mad with desire. — Laurence Freeman
The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it… — Jennifer Haigh
Heaven is not a place for those who are afraid of hell; it’s a place for those who love God. You can scare people into… — Matt Chandler
If you add to or subtract from the cross, even if it is to factor in biblically mandated religious practices like prayer and evangelism, you… — Matt Chandler
Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance… — Randy Alcorn
I have always been edified by Hebrew prayers. — Moses Hess
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole. — Jonathan Sacks
True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. — Mary Baker Eddy
Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse,… — Lancelot Andrewes
Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps,… — Charles Simeon
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible. — Jacques Ellul
As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to seek God because I need Him', may be an… — Evelyn Underhill
If by losing the spirit of prayer, you mean losing the heavenly sensations of deep devotion, I am afraid that does not matter a scrap. — Evelyn Underhill
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection. — Alexander Cockburn
And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who… — Anne Heche
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. — J. Michael Straczynski
There are many upright and faithful who live all the commandments and whose lives and prayers keep the world from destruction. — Spencer W. Kimball

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