Quotes about Prayer
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
Let us think less of men and more of God.
— Philip James Bailey
When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.
— AW Tozer
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
— AW Tozer
When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The man who prays ceases to be a fool
— Oswald Chambers
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
— Oswald Chambers
Our Lord did not say it was wrong to pray in the corners of the street, but He did say it was wrong to have the motive to "be seen of men".
— Oswald Chambers
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.
— James Freeman Clarke