Prayer Quotes: Inspiring Words for the Soul

"Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer"

Nat Turner, Activist

"I believe in prayer and in strong belief"

Tina Turner, Musician

"A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer"

Doris Lessing, Writer

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"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, Artist

"My longing for truth was a single prayer"

Edith Stein, Saint

"Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance"

Victor Hugo, Author

"Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"The fewer the words, the better the prayer"

Martin Luther, Professor

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden"

Corrie Ten Boom, Celebrity

"The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals"

Duke of Wellington, Royalty

"Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

"I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers"

Abdul Kalam, Statesman

"He knows the tax code as thoroughly as the pope knows the Lord's Prayer"

William Proxmire, Politician

"Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered"

George Meredith, Novelist

"A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers"

Austin O'Malley, Physicist

"He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast"

James Hogg, Poet

"Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it"

Voltaire, Writer

"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer"

Mark Twain, Author

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer"

Marcus Aurelius, Soldier

"The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking"

Will Rogers, Actor

"About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon"

Martin Luther, Professor

"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 resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills"

Thomas Aquinas, Theologian

"I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some sort of Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer"

Henri Matisse, Artist

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God"

Søren Kierkegaard, Philosopher

"Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

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