Quotes about Prayer
A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.
- Charles Spurgeon
Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.
- Charles Spurgeon
Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
- St. Augustine
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
- Khalil Gibran
Prayer and sacrifice can touch souls better than words.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.
- Catherine Marshall
The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.
- Pope John Paul II
When the opposite of your prayer occurs, your prayer hasn't been ignored; it's been considered & refused for your ultimate good.
- CS Lewis
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.
- Adrian Rogers
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
- Timothy Keller
To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.
- Thomas Merton