Prayer famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Prayer is the link that connects us with God.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
-- A. B. Simpson -
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
-- A. B. Simpson -
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Pray, always pray; beneath sins heaviest load, Prayer claims the blood from Jesus' side that flowed. Pray, always pray; though weary, faint, and lone, Prayer nestles by the Father's sheltering throne.
-- A. B. Simpson -
Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.
-- A. B. Simpson -
All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.
-- A. B. Simpson -
When we rely upon organization, we get what organization can do; when we rely upon education, we get what education can do; when we rely upon eloquence, we get what eloquence can do. And so on. But when we rely upon prayer, we get what God can do.
-- A. C. Dixon -
When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way.
-- A. C. Dixon -
When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.
-- A. C. Dixon -
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
-- A. C. Dixon -
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
-- A. J. Jacobs -
Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.
-- A.C. Grayling -
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years.
-- Aaron Neville -
I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.
-- Abbott Eliot Kittredge -
God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
-- Abdul Kalam -
To say this sacred prayer [the Kaddish, prayer for the dead] for a Gentile is a most uncommon proceeding, but so unanimous and ardent is the feeling of the people of the New York ghetto in the present instance that Pres. William McKinley is spoken of in that quarter as "the loving brother of all of us," as one who "died a martyr to the freedom of Jew and Gentile.
-- Abraham Cahan -
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Prayer begins where our power ends.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Rules of living Don't worry, eat three square meals a day,say your prayers, be courteous to your creditors, keep your digestion good,steer clear of biliousness,exercise, go slow and go easy. May be there are other things that your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these, i reckon, will give you a good life.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and 'randomly' pull me aside for 'special treatment'. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord's angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment
-- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi -
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
-- Adam Clarke -
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite his desire, to inflame his faith, to animate his hope, to raise his soul from earth to heaven...
-- Adam Clarke -
For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!
-- Adolf Hitler -
Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!
-- Adolf Hitler -
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
-- Adoniram Judson -
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
-- Adoniram Judson -
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
-- Adoniram Judson -
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
-- Adoniram Judson -
Nothing is impossible,' said one of the seven sages of Greece, 'to industry.' Let us change the word, 'industry,' to 'persevering prayer,' and the motto will be more Christian and more worthy of universal adoption.
-- Adoniram Judson -
The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.
-- Adrian Rogers -
There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.
-- Adrian Rogers -
If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship.
-- Adrian Rogers -
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings on bodies that could have been your own, when the staves of history fall awry and the barrel of time bursts apart, some turn to prayer, some to poetry: words in the memory, a stained book carried close to the body, the notebook scribbled by hand--a center of gravity.
-- Adrienne Rich -
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
-- Adyashanti -
We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.
-- Agnes Baker Pilgrim -
If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Leadership requires vision, and whence will vision come except from hours spent in the presence of God in humble and fervent prayer?
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
All things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives. In the long pull we only pray as well as we live.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
-- Al-Ghazali -
The first matter that the slave will be brought to account for on the Day of Judgment is the prayer. If it is sound, then the rest of his deeds will be sound. And if it is bad, then the rest of his deeds will be bad.
-- Al-Tabarani -
Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang out over shuttered whitewashed houses, where we understood nothing of the language and where no one knew our identities.
-- Alain de Botton -
We are fit for the work of God only when we have wept over it, prayed about it, and then we are enabled by Him to tackle the job that needs to be done.
-- Alan Redpath -
We will only advance in our evangelistic work as fast and as far as we advance on our knees. Prayer opens the channel between a soul and God; prayerlessness closes it. Prayer releases the grip of Satan's power; prayerlessness increases it. That is why prayer is so exhausting and so vital. If we believed it, the prayer meeting would be as full as the church.
-- Alan Redpath -
Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."
-- Alan Redpath -
The help of God does not come to us when we are indifferent. It comes to the man who is depending on God in the thick of the light. It comes to the one who tarries for the vision in faith. It comes to the one who believes that he who waits upon The Lord shall never be confounded. It comes to the one who rests upon the promises of the Word. It comes to the one who beleives that before he calls, God will answer. It comes to the man who lives by faith as if in the actual possession of the answer to his prayer, although the enemy is still around him. It is faith which turns distress into singing.
-- Alan Redpath -
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.
-- Albert Pike -
Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!
-- Aleister Crowley -
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation.
-- Alex Grey -
Demons do not cry. You became a demon, because you couldn't cry anymore right? Humans cry and when their tears finally run dry, there's nothing left, not a demon nor a monster and one final prayer for death. So, laugh demon. Laugh that arrogant laugh of your and remember I beat you to it.
-- Alexander Anderson -
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
-- Alexander Cockburn -
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
-- Alexander Herzen -
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.
-- Alexander MacLaren -
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea, To muse, and spill her solitary tea, Or o'er cold coffee trifle with the spoon, Count the slow clock, and dine exact at noon.
-- Alexander Pope -
Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.
-- Alexander Whyte -
The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.
-- Alexander Whyte -
No prayer!-No faith!-No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!-Little faith!-Little Christ in the heart. Increasing prayer!-Increasing faith!-Increasing Christ in the heart!. Much prayer!-Much faith!-Much Christ in the heart! Praying always!-Faith always!-Christ always!
-- Alexander Whyte -
If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.
-- Alexander Whyte -
No prayer!--No faith!--No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!--Little faith!--Little Christ in the heart.
-- Alexander Whyte -
I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.
-- Alexander Whyte -
No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Prayer worth calling prayer, prayer that God will call true prayer and will treat as true prayer, takes for more time by the clock than one man in a thousand thinks.
-- Alexander Whyte -
Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?
-- Alexandra David-Neel -
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
-- Alexandre Dumas -
Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Prayer, the basic exercise of the spirit, must be actively practiced in our private lives. The neglected soul of the human being must be made strong enough to assert itself once more. For if the power of prayer is again released and used in the lives of common men and women; if the spirit declares its aims clearly and boldly, there is yet hope that our prayers for a better world will be answered.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
-- Alexis Carrel -
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace...
-- Alexis Carrel -
Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
-- Alexis Carrel -
Man offers himself to God. He stands before Him like the canvas before the painter or the marble before the sculptor. At the same time he asks for His grace, expresses his needs and those of his brothers in suffering. Such a type of prayer demands complete renovation. The modest, the ignorant, and the poor are more capable of this self-denial than the rich and the intellectual.
-- Alexis Carrel -
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
-- Alexis Carrel -
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson
