Quotes about Prayer
I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
— Lou Holtz
No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My fast is a matter between God and myself.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.
— Marianne Williamson
Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'
— Marianne Williamson
Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)
— Marianne Williamson
Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God.
— Mark Batterson
We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.
— Mark Batterson
God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.
— Mark Batterson
The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.
— Mark Batterson