Prayer Quotes

"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered"

Leonard Cohen, Musician

"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us"

John Selden, Statesman

"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 God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer"

William Ames, Philosopher

"When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying"

Jeremy Taylor, Clergyman

"Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach"

Woodrow Wilson

"In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach"

Woodrow Wilson

"Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer"

Mary Baker Eddy, Theologian

"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us"

Georges Bernanos, Author

"Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer"

William Wilberforce, Politician

"Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence"

Martin Farquhar Tupper, Writer

"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own"

Chiang Kai-shek, Soldier

"When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer"

Julia Margaret Cameron, Photographer

"My hope and prayer is that the body of Christ in America will awake with holy boldness, a boldness content neither with silence nor mere words but that backs up those words with action and results"

Frank R. Wolf, Politician

"Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart"

Josh McDowell, Writer

"Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation"

Frederic William Farrar, Theologian

"So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years"

Aaron Neville, Musician

"In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer"

Anna Lee, Actress

"As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people"

Arthur Middleton, Politician

"It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It's the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield, and the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land"

Rod Parsley, Celebrity

"Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends"

Mark Hopkins, Educator

"Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else"

Robert McAfee Brown, Theologian

"Poetry and prayer are very similar"

Carol Ann Duffy, Poet

"I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven"

Josephine Baker, Dancer

"Music is a form of prayer"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation"

Alex Grey, Artist

"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself"

Harold E. Hughes, Politician

"Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God"

John Buchan, Politician

"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, Clergyman

"Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat"

Mother Maribel

"Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud"

Gerald Vann, Theologian

"Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods"

Whitley Strieber, Writer

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart"

John Bunyan, Clergyman

"Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome "

Maria W. Chapman

"Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life"

Thomas S. Monson, Clergyman

"The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us"

Origen, Theologian

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