Quotes about Prayer
Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.
— Amy Carmichael
Yet then from all my grief, O Lord, Thy mercy set me free, Whilst in the confidence of pray'r My soul took hold on thee.
— Joseph Addison
The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.
— Maude Royden
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.
— Mark Twain
We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.
— John Piper
To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God.
— John Bunyan
For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Be careful before leaving someone in a sorrowing situation. Say a word of prayer with them and share even a brief word of encouragement from the Scriptures.
— Billy Graham
To pray well one must pray much.
— Georgia Harkness
Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts.
— John Calvin