Quotes about Prayer
January 29 Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful. Name all the fine things you possess, all the wonderful things that have happened to you, and thank God for them. Make that your prayer.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Affirmative Prayers Release Powers By Which Positive Results Are Accomplished.
— Norman Vincent Peale
God, make him well, please. God, help him breathe, please. God, help him to see, please. A sound heart is the life of the flesh.
— Og Mandino
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' it will be enough." —Meister Eckhart
— Oprah Winfrey
I thing that god is always listening to all my prayers.and i have so many dreams in my life.thats why I`m always praying that`s someday I`m going to achieve all my dreams.
— Oprah Winfrey
Delight thyself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.
— Oprah Winfrey
Do you have a situation in which you're having trouble discerning whether God is protecting you or Satan is hindering you? Ask God to show you His way.
— OS Hillman
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
— Oscar Wilde
The reverend waited for her to be seated and then he bowed his head and blessed the food and the table and the people sitting at it. He went on at some length and blessed everything all the way up to the country and then he blessed some other countries as well and he spoke about war and famine and the missions and other problems in the world with particular reference to Russia and the jews and cannibalism and he asked it all in Christ's name amen and raised up and reached for the cornbread.
— Cormac McCarthy
Almighty God, if it aint too far out of the way of things in your eternal plan do you reckon we could have a little rain down here.
— Cormac McCarthy
The fact that God is sovereign over the distribution of gifts (1 Cor. 12:7) is no reason not to seek the gifts. God is sovereign over our food too, but though he desires to provide it for his children (see Matt. 6:25—34) and wants us to seek his kingdom first (Matt. 6:9—10, 33), he expects us to pray for him to provide our food (Matt. 6:11; 7:7—11).
— Craig Keener
That was all her prayer—not for his soul or his righteousness, but that he might not be wasted. And while he slept, for hours and hours, she thought and prayed for him.
— DH Lawrence