Quotes about Prayer
Jesus taught us a prayer of community and reconciliation, belonging to a new people who have left the land of 'me'.
— Shane Claiborne
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
— Thomas Merton
God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.
— David Brainerd
Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.
— Thomas Merton
Prayer is the means that God has ordained for the supply of grace that is necessary to be joyful in hope.
— Alistair Begg
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
— E Stanley Jones
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
— Elie Wiesel
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
— George Bernard Shaw
I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.
— Marianne Williamson
Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.
— Oswald Chambers
May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.
— Billy Graham
God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.
— Norman Vincent Peale