Prayer Quotes:

Prayer is the link that connects us with God.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Prayer, Links, Praying To God

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Christian, Prayer, Moving, Missions And Prayer, Engines

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

topic: Prayer, Children, Father

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Prayer, Praying, Christ

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

topic: Prayer, Blessing, Rose, Ascending, Supplies

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

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Father, Lone

Pray, always pray; when sickness wastes thy frame, Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Healing, Jesus Name

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

- A. B. Simpson

topic: Prayer, Passing Away, Earth

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

topic: Prayer, Organization, Eloquence

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

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Children

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

topic: Prayer, Organization

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

topic: Prayer, New Life, Needs, Praying For You, Quickening

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

topic: Prayer, Believe, Everyday, Transcendent

Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

- A.C. Grayling

topic: Prayer, House, Trying, Lighting

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

topic: Prayer, Book, Years, Standing There, St Jude

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

topic: Prayer, Struggle, Helping

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

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p.22, 1895.

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Fire, Spoken Word, Thunderbolts

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

topic: Encouragement, Prayer, Personality, Two Personalities

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

topic: Brother, New York, Prayer, Mckinley, Proceeding

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

source: "The Jewish moral virtues". Book by Eugene Borowitz, 1999.

topic: Prayer, Heart, Bridges, Mending A Broken Heart

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Prayer, Mindfulness, Emptiness

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

topic: Prayer, Home, Self, Residence

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

topic: Song, Prayer, Legs, Montgomery

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Prayer, Issues

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

topic: Art, Prayer, Training

Prayer begins where our power ends.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Prayer, Ends

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

source: Twitter post from Dec 12, 2014

topic: Song, Prayer, Men

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

- Abraham Joshua Heschel

topic: Prayer, Humble, Answers

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

topic: Motivational, Faith, Prayer

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

topic: Inspirational, Good Life, Prayer, Courteous, Steers

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

topic: Prayer, Presidential, Anxiety

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

topic: Prayer, Islamic, Angel, Special Treatment, Islamophobia

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

- Adam Clarke

source: Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.252

topic: Prayer, Heart, Christian Inspirational, Praying To God, I Pray

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

topic: Christian, Prayer, Heart, Humble Man

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

topic: Prayer, Children, Boys, Belief In God

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

topic: Prayer, Home, Years

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

- Adoniram Judson

topic: Prayer, Blessing, Giving

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

topic: Prayer, Shapes, Matter

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

- Adoniram Judson

topic: Prayer, Kindness, Answers

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

- Adoniram Judson

topic: Running, Prayer, Answers

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

topic: Christian, Prayer, Adoption

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

topic: Morning, Prayer, Athlete, Quiet Time

There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

- Adrian Rogers

topic: Prayer, Promise, Answers

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

topic: Prayer, Heart, Naps, Quiet Time, Unconfessed Sin

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

topic: Notebook, Memories, Prayer, Buckles, Debris

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

- Adyashanti

topic: Prayer, Goal, Meditation, Silent Prayer

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

topic: Mother, Prayer, Earth Day, Prayer Works

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

topic: Jesus, Art, Prayer, Cold Heart, True Worship

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

topic: Christian, Prayer, Thinking, Penitence

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

topic: Prayer, Men, Doe, Lovingkindness, God Answers Prayers

While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Christian, Prayer, Blessed, Riddance

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

topic: Christian, Prayer, Humble, Fervent, Fervent Prayer

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Christian, Prayer, Answers, Mighty God, Commitment To God

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

topic: Prayer, Powerful, Long

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

topic: Wisdom, Prayer, Islamic, Reckoning, Prayer Beads

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

topic: Prayer, Sound, Deeds

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

topic: Country, Prayer, Sky, Terminal, Fonts

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

topic: Jobs, Prayer, Needs

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

topic: Christian, Prayer, Soul, Prayer Meeting

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."

- Alan Redpath

topic: Prayer, Kingdoms, Praying, Kingdom Come, Our Prayers

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

source: "The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David".

topic: Prayer, Believe, Men

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

topic: Prayer, Men, Two, Love Prayer

Hear our humble prayer, O God. Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to the animals.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Dog, Religious, Prayer

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

topic: Prayer, Heart, Egypt, Expertise

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

topic: Prayer, Done, Lord, Prayers Not Being Answered, Answers To Prayer

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Prayer, Stink, Prayer Works

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

topic: Prayer, Long, Temptation, Asking God

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

- Aleister Crowley

topic: Prayer, Thyself, Invoke

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

topic: Prayer, Play, Identity, Expanse

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

topic: Running, Prayer, Laughing

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

- Alexander Cockburn

source: Alexander Cockburn (1988). “Corruptions of Empire: Life Studies & the Reagan Era”, p.15, Verso

topic: Religious, Prayer, Soul, Infection

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

topic: Prayer, World, Spirit

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

- Alexander MacLaren

topic: Prayer, Waiting, Thankfulness

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

topic: Prayer, Toil, Abiding

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

topic: Life, Morning, Prayer, Dine, Morning Walk

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.

- Alexander Whyte

source: Alexander Whyte (1948). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray”, p.146, CCEL

topic: Prayer, Way

The greatest and best talent that God gives to any man or woman in this world is the talent of prayer.

- Alexander Whyte

topic: Prayer, Men, Giving

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

source: Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.152, Regent College Publishing

topic: Prayer, Heart, Littles, Little Faith

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

source: Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Sweat

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

- Alexander Whyte

source: Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.20, Regent College Publishing

topic: Prayer, Heart, Drawing

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

topic: Prayer, Hands, Practice

No prayer!--No faith!--No Christ in the heart. Little prayer!--Little faith!--Little Christ in the heart.

- Alexander Whyte

source: Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.152, Regent College Publishing

topic: Prayer, Heart, Littles

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

source: Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

topic: Prayer, Lying, Soul, Hurrying

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

source: Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.119, Regent College Publishing

topic: Prayer, Impossible, Kind, Intercessory Prayer

No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.

- Alexander Whyte

source: Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.119, Regent College Publishing

topic: Prayer, Men, Life Is

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

topic: Prayer, Men, Thinking

Why do you pray if you doubt you are heard?

- Alexandra David-Neel

topic: Prayer, Doubt, Praying

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

topic: Prayer, Mean, Men

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

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Powerful

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

topic: Strength, Prayer, Real, Unshakable

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

topic: Strong, Prayer, Exercise

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.

- Alexis Carrel

topic: Prayer, Self, Energy

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

topic: Prayer, Selfish, Silly, Moral Obligation, Intellectual Humility

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

topic: Prayer, Giving, Mind

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

topic: Brother, Prayer, Men, Renovation

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

topic: Prayer, Reality, Understanding, Buoyancy, Glands

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

source: 'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 414

topic: Dream, Spiritual, Prayer, Praying To God, Prayer Changes Things

Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Prayer, Home, Eye, Her Eyes, Silent Prayer

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Prayer, Heaven, Storm, Gates Of Heaven, Battering

The old order changeth yielding place to new And God fulfills himself in many ways Lest one good custom should corrupt the world. Comfort thyself: what comfort is in me I have lived my life and that which I have done May he within himself make pure but thou If thou shouldst never see my face again Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson

topic: Life, Dream, Prayer

I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents' prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .

- Ali Shariati

topic: Girl, Prayer, Passion

the world has changed: it did not change without your prayers without your faith without your determination to believe in liberation and kindness; without your dancing through the years that had no beat.

- Alice Walker

topic: Determination, Prayer, Kindness

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.

- Alice Walker

topic: Gratitude, Prayer, Being Thankful, Inspirational Gratitude, Inspirational Thank You

Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.

- Alistair Begg

topic: Prayer, Needs, Helping

Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Prayer, Ephemeral, Daily Life, All That Remains

Prayer is always acceptable to God when dictated by the heart, for the intention is everything in his sight; and the prayer of the heart is preferable to one read from a book, however beautiful it may be, if read with the lips rather than with the thought.

- Allan Kardec

source: Allan Kardec (2016). “The Spirits’ Book: The Principles of Spiritist Doctrine”, p.307, Secret Master eBooks

topic: Beautiful, Prayer, Book

It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Prayer, Perfection, Temptation

He who prays most receives most.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Prayer, Praying

"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Prayer, Flower, Land, Pruning, Converses

Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, 'Ask, and you shall receive,' but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Spiritual, Prayer, Blessed, Blessed Sacrament

Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone.

- Alphonsus Liguori

topic: Prayer, Blessed, Thinking, Asking God

Prayers offered up in Christian worship in the earliest days of the faith were addressed to 'Our Lord the Sun,' evidencing that 'primitive' Christians were quite in the spirit of Pagan forms and ideologies.

- Alvin Boyd Kuhn

topic: Christian, Prayer, Sun, Christian Worship

I would have to say the power to heal. This show has enhanced my relationship to magic. I would have called it prayer. There are definitely certain incantations that I do now.

- Alyssa Milano

topic: Prayer, Magic, Certain

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

- Ambrose

topic: Prayer, Eye, Wings

Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.

- Ambrose

topic: Prayer, Men, Names

But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

- Ambrose

topic: Prayer, Angel, Our Prayers, My Guardian Angel, Guardian Angel

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.

- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

source: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.220, Delacorte Press

topic: Dance, Prayer, Past, Love Freedom, Dance Love

My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.

- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

source: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2010). “The Shapeshifters: The Kiesha'ra of the Den of Shadows”, p.243, Delacorte Press

topic: Peace, Prayer, Children, Dear Ones

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

- Amin Maalouf

source: Amin Maalouf (1998). “Leo Africanus”, p.1, New Amsterdam Books

topic: Country, Prayer, Son

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

- Amit Ray

topic: Prayer, Heart, Perfect, Supreme Power

The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.

- Amit Ray

topic: Prayer, Eye, Heart, Heart Filled, Open Your Heart

Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the center of your heart filled with love.

- Amit Ray

topic: Prayer, Heart, Should

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner.

- Amit Ray

topic: Prayer, Inner Strength, Weakness

We have one crystal clear reason apart from the blessed happiness of this way of life. It is this: prayer is the core of our day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse, would be pithless, a straw blown in the wind. But how can you pray--really pray, I mean--with one against who you have a grudge or whom you have been discussing critically with another? Try it. You will find it cannot be done.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Prayer, Blessed, Inspiration

It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.

- Amy Carmichael

topic: Prayer, Soul, Relief, Solemn

You're no longer fighting God, trying to make Him do what you want. You're accepting what happens, and your main prayer transforms into one that asks God for nothing more than understanding and perhaps strength to endure.

- Amy Welborn

source: Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.37, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

topic: Prayer, Fighting, Understanding

You're here, on your knees, praying as the seconds on your Mickey Mouse clock tick by, but in God's time, you're working with Him at the moment of creation, when there is no time.

- Amy Welborn

source: Amy Welborn (2002). “Prove It! Prayer”, p.36, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

topic: Prayer, Knees, Praying

Joys and sorrows are time-born and cannot last. Therefore, do not be perturbed by these. The greater the difficulties and obstructions, the more intense will be your endeavor to cling to His feet and the more will your prayer increase from within. And when the time is ripe, you will gain mastery over this power.

- Anandamayi Ma

topic: Spiritual, Wisdom, Prayer

Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.

- Andrea Gibson

topic: Prayer, Thinking, Solitude, Before I Die, Hiding Place

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

- Andres Segovia

topic: Death, Prayer, Heaven

Oh brother, pray; in spite of Satan, pray; spend hours in prayer; rather neglect friends than not pray; rather fast, and lose breakfast, dinner, tea, and supper - and sleep too - than not pray. And we must not talk about prayer, we must pray in right earnest. The Lord is near. He comes softly while the virgins slumber.

- Andrew Bonar

topic: Christian, Brother, Prayer, Our Prayers, Prayer And Fasting

'Hamas has been looking forward to implement Allah'€™s promise whatever time it might take. The prophet, prayer and peace be upon him, said: The time will not come until Muslims will fight the Jews (and kill them); until the Jews hide behind rocks and trees, which will cry: O Muslim! there is a Jew hiding behind me, come on and kill him!'

- Andrew C. McCarthy

topic: Prayer, Fighting, Rocks, Hamas

Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day, that He will so overrule all my intentions and actions and inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from dangers of all kinds and continue forever a united and happy people.

- Andrew Jackson

topic: Prayer, Heart, Hands, Fervent Prayer, Present Day

Each time, before you intercede, be quiet first, and worship God in His glory. Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!

- Andrew Murray

topic: Prayer, Thinking, People, Missions And Prayer, Keep Believing

God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.

- Andrew Murray

topic: Prayer, Heart, Desire

We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.

- Andrew Murray

source: Andrew Murray (1997). “Reaching Your World For Christ”, p.47, Whitaker House

topic: Prayer, Believe, Moving, Christian Prayer

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

- Andrew Murray

source: Andrew Murray (2013). “The Wisdom of Andrew Murray”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

topic: Prayer, Men, Forgiving, Evidence Of God, Forgiving Love

The Lord gave the wonderful promise of the free use of His Name with the Father in conjunction with doing His works. The disciple who lives only for Jesus' work and Kingdom, for His will and honor, will be given the power to appropriate the promise. Anyone grasping the promise only when he wants something very special for himself will be disappointed, because he is making Jesus the servant of his own comfort. But whoever wants to pray the effective prayer of faith because he needs it for the work of the Master will learn it, because he has made himself the servant of his Lord's interests.

- Andrew Murray

source: "Andrew Murray On Prayer".

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Father

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

- Andrew Murray

source: Andrew Murray (1997). “God's Power for Today”, p.70, Whitaker House

topic: Prayer, Great Things, Supplication

Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.

- Andrew Murray

source: Andrew Murray (1885). “With Christ in the School of Prayer: Thoughts on Our Training for the Ministry of Intercession”

topic: Prayer, Children, Father, Interchange, Answered Prayers

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.

- Andrew Murray

source: Andrew Murray (2013). “The Wisdom of Andrew Murray”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

topic: Prayer, Father, Sacrifice

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.

- Andrew Murray

topic: Prayer, Humility, Trying

Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God.

- Andrew Murray

source: Andrew Murray (2007). “With Christ in the School of Prayer”, p.170, Lulu.com

topic: Prayer, Desire, Quiet

We have been deceived into believing prayer is all about persuading God to release His power. We no longer need to beg or plead; we need to exercise the authority He has given us and receive His blessings.

- Andrew Wommack

topic: Prayer, Believe, Exercise

It is the Sacrament of Love that excites the soul to ardent prayer. It stirs up the virtue of impetration and, as it were, forces God to grant our petition. It deepens the abyss of humility, above all it enkindles the flame of love in the heart; hence the Sacrament is the Gift of gifts, and the Grace of graces

- Angela of Foligno

topic: Prayer, Heart, Humility, Petitions, Blessed Sacrament

I pray everywhere--in the shower, on a plane, in traffic, you name it. When I feel like I have had enough, I will literally take a knee, bow my head, and beg God for help and strength. I know not to beg Him for patience, because then He gives me situations in which I have to grow more patient; I learned that lesson! And if I am having a wonderful day, I will stop to thank Him. It's a relationship.

- Angie Harmon

topic: Prayer, Names, Giving, Wonderful Day

There is power in prayer. When men work, they work. but when men pray, God works.

- Angus Buchan

source: FaceBook post by Angus Buchan from Feb 25, 2013

topic: Prayer, Men, Praying

I could not get my fill of looking. There should be a song for women to sing at this moment or a prayer to recite. But perhaps there is none because there are no words strong enough to name that moment.

- Anita Diament

topic: Song, Strong, Prayer

Our life is our prayer. It is our gift to the universe, and the memories we leave behind when we someday exit this world will be our legacy to our loved ones. The best thing we can do for ourselves and everyone around us is to find our joy and share it!

- Anita Moorjani

topic: Wisdom, Prayer, Memories

And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared.

- Ann Romney

source: "Ann Romney talks about herself in Connecticut" by Maggie Haberman, www.politico.com. April 24, 2012.

topic: Prayer, Rain, Believe

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Prayer, Worry, Action

The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.

- Ann Voskamp

topic: Prayer, Reading, Fire

In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.

- Ann Weems

source: Ann Weems (1999). “Psalms of Lament”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

topic: Stars, Prayer, Hands, Loved Ones Who Died, Death Of A Loved One

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

- Anna Lee

topic: Prayer, Father, Ministers, Episcopalians

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

- Anna Letitia Barbauld

topic: Good Night, Morning, Prayer, Inspirational Death, Death Of A Friend

Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears?

- Anne Bronte

topic: Prayer, Heart, Past, Coldness, Adieu

The prayer most pleasing to God is that made for others and particularly for the poor souls. Pray for them, if you want your prayers to bring high interest.

- Anne Catherine Emmerich

topic: Prayer, Soul, Want

When I put my faith in Jesus Christ as my savior, and I asked him to forgive and to come into my life, and He does - from that moment forward I have established a personal relationship with God that I have to develop, you know, through Bible reading and prayer, and living my life for him.

- Anne Graham Lotz

topic: Jesus, Prayer, Reading, Bible Reading, Personal Relationship With God

I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy.

- Anne Graham Lotz

topic: Prayer, Husband, Crazy, Bible Reading

And for anyone who ever thought that Ellen and I broke it off because of sexuality, you couldn't be more mistaken. And for anyone who thought my mother's prayers had anything to do with me marrying a man, forget it.

- Anne Heche

topic: Mother, Prayer, Men

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Prayer, Despair, Helping, Teachable

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

- Anne Lamott

source: Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.92, Anchor

topic: Prayer, Honesty, Kids, Against All Odds, Toolbox

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Prayer, Grief, Believe, Dance Floor, Garage

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

- Anne Lamott

source: Anne Lamott (2012). “Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers”, p.7, Penguin

topic: Prayer, Believe, Mean

I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.

- Anne Lamott

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Prayer, Believe, Simple, Twenty Five

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Prayer, Two, Helping, Morning Prayer, Conceded

A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Prayer, Character, Years

The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.

- Anne Lamott

source: Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

topic: Prayer, Thinking, Light

Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Prayer, Car, Church

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, 'Well, isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

- Anne Lamott

source: Anne Lamott (2000). “Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith”, p.108, Anchor

topic: God, Prayer, Water

Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Prayer, Quiet, Amen

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Prayer, Essentials, Three

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Morning, Prayer, Children

Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.

- Anne Lamott

topic: Prayer, Heart, Asking God

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Morning, Prayer, Flower, Saying A Prayer

One writes not to be read but to breathe...one writes to think, to pray, to analyze. One writes to clear one's mind, to dissipate one's fears, to face one's doubts, to look at one's mistakes--in order to retrieve them. One writes to capture and crystallize one's joy, but also to disperse one's gloom. Like prayer--you go to it in sorrow more than joy, for help, a road back to 'grace'.

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Prayer, Mistake, Writing

Good work instead of long prayers.

- Anne Royall

topic: Prayer, Long, Action

Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

- Anne Sexton

source: Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

topic: Prayer, Fall, Love Is

Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.

- Annie Dillard

topic: Inspiring, Prayer, Forever

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

- Anouk Aimee

topic: Prayer, Love Is, Men

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

- Anselm of Canterbury

topic: Prayer, Giving, Mind, Our Prayers, Prayers Not Being Answered

A Prayer of Anselm My God, I pray that I may so know you and love you that I may rejoice in you. And if I may not do so fully in this life let me go steadily on to the day when I come to that fullness . . . Let me receive That which you promised through your truth, that my joy may be full.

- Anselm of Canterbury

topic: Life, Prayer, Love You, Let Me Go, Canterbury

Oh-do be careful with that! That's my Buddha hand grenade. Twist the head twice and throw it and anyone within ten yards can say their prayers.

- Anthony Horowitz

topic: Prayer, Hands, Twists, Grenade

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

- Anthony of Padua

topic: Prayer, Character, Grace

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

- Anthony of Padua

topic: Prayer, Perfect, Facts

We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of one who can, like St. Paul say, 'I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me,' is real Christian prayer.

- Anthony of Sourozh

topic: Christian, Spiritual, Prayer

All our blasphemies are only little prayers.

- Antoni Lange

source: "Vox Posthuma". Poem by Antoni Lange, 1895.

topic: Prayer, Littles, Blasphemy

It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs.

- Archibald Alexander

source: Archibald Alexander (2009). “Outlines of Moral Science”, p.264, Applewood Books

topic: Prayer, Children, Parent

Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless.

- Aristophanes

source: Aristophanes, Douglass Parker (1969). “Four Comedies: Lysistrata; The Acharnians; The Congresswomen, Translated by Douglass Parker. The Frogs, Translated by Richmond Lattimore”, University of Michigan Press

topic: Prayer, Wine, Pointless

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

- Aristotle

topic: Prayer, Sacrifice, Atheism

Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.

- Armstrong Williams

topic: Prayer, Benefits, Patient

Yes, I like that word. "More" is a prayer to God, isn't it? Gratitude and plea, all in one.

- Art Garfunkel

topic: Gratitude, Prayer

The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.

- Arthur Middleton

topic: Prayer, Evil, Church

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

- Arthur Middleton

topic: Prayer, People, And Love

Blessed are they who, in the calm moments of retirement, of worship, of prayer, of silent waiting, have found that to "the weary and heavy laden " Christ can indeed give rest; that compared with the heavy bondage of the world or the exactions of human systems, His yoke indeed is easy, and His burden is light.

- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

source: "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 98), 1895.

topic: Retirement, Prayer, Blessed

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

- Arthur Tappan Pierson

topic: Prayer, Progress, Missionary

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

- Arthur Tappan Pierson

topic: Spiritual, Country, Prayer, Prayer Changes Things, Locality

God has no greater controversy with His people today than this, that with boundless promises to believing prayer, there are so few who actually give themselves unto intercession.

- Arthur Tappan Pierson

source: Royal Gould Wilder, Delavan Leonard Pierson, Arthur Tappan Pierson, James Manning Sherwood (1898). “The Missionary Review of the World”

topic: Prayer, Believe, People, Intercession

A marble cutter, with chisel and hammer, was changing a stone into a statue. A preacher looking on said: "I wish I could deal such changing blows on stony hearts." The workman answered: "Maybe you could, if you worked like me, upon your knees."

- Arthur Tappan Pierson

topic: Prayer, Heart, Blow, Chisels, Cutters

Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.

- Arthur W. Pink

source: Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.217, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

topic: Prayer, Attitude, Praying To God, Dependency, Christian Prayer