Famous prayer quotes,quotations and sayings
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
Inspirational Quote by Philip Henry
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Good Sayings by Philip James Bailey
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Source : Henry Ward Beecher~Great Prayer Quotes
Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: Great God, grant that twice two be not four.
Source : Ivan Turgenev~Great Prayer Quotes
There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence.
Source : O. Hallesby~Famous Prayer Sayings
What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours.
Motivational saying by Helga Bergold Gross
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
Inspirational Quote by Author Unknown
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
Good Sayings by Author Unknown
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Source : Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911~Great Prayer Quotes
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
Source : Edwin Keith~Great Prayer Quotes
We must move from asking God to take care of the things that are breaking our hearts, to praying about the things that are breaking His heart.
Source : Margaret Gibb~Famous Prayer Sayings
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Motivational saying by Richard J. Needham
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Inspirational Quote by Oscar Wilde
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
Good Sayings by George Bernard Shaw
Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.
Source : Author Unknown~Great Prayer Quotes
Before we can pray, Lord, Thy Kingdom come, we must be willing to pray, My Kingdom go.
Source : Alan Redpath~Great Prayer Quotes
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Source : Austin O’Malley~Famous Prayer Sayings
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
Motivational saying by A.B. Simpson
I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Inspirational Quote by Josephine Baker
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
Good Sayings by Indian Proverb
When we talk to God, we’re praying. When God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic.
Source : Jane Wagner, In Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin~Great Prayer Quotes
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Source : Frederick Douglass, escaped slave~Great Prayer Quotes
Give us this day our daily bread is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.
Source : P.J. Wingate~Famous Prayer Sayings