Quotes about Prayer
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
What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
God answers prayer on the ground of Redemption and on no other ground.
— Oswald Chambers
I believe in prayer and in strong belief.
— Tina Turner
Prayer turns theology into experience.
— Timothy Keller
If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.
— Oswald Chambers
The people in Louisiana must know that all across our country there's a lot of prayer - prayer for those whose lives have been turned upside down. And I'm one of them.
— George W. Bush