A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
Phillips Brooks
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
Will Rogers
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
Alexander Cockburn
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
Dean Inge
An authentic life is the most personal form of worship. Everyday life has become my prayer.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
Corrie Ten Boom
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
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
Doris Lessing
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school.
Cokie Roberts
Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts.
Alan Cohen
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
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
Madalyn Murray O’Hair
Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night – be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Frank Sinatra
But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core.
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
George MacDonald
By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.
Malcolm Boyd
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.
Samuel M. Shoemaker
“Give us this day our daily bread” is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.
P.J. Wingate
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
Richard J. Needham
When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
When we talk to God, we’re praying. When God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic.
Jane Wagner
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
S�ren Kierkegaard
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing – nothing.
Saint Francis of Assisi
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
Philip Melanchthen
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in schools.
When a man is at his wits’ end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers
I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
Frederick Douglass
As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.
Nick Rahall
The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him.
William McGill
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.
No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.
Guy H. King
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.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Austin O’Malley
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
Oswald Chambers
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
B. Graham Dienert
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.
Henry Ward Beecher
when it’s a glorious day
I pray
and
it’s a glorious day
when I pray
Star Rich�s
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.
Walter A. Mueller
The Lord’s Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.
Frederick Denison Maurice
Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can’t pray a lie – I found that out.
Mark Twain
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
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.”
Ivan Turgenev
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
William Inge
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Matthew Henry
Grow flowers of gratitude in the soil of prayer.
Verbena Woods
If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
Philip Henry
The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
Will Rogers
Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord’s Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
Henry Ward Beecher
Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him – you try too hard, friend – drop to your knees and listen to him, he’ll hear you better that way.
Ever Garrison
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
John Bunyan
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. Oscar Wilde
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.
John Keble
Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude.
Jessi Lane Adams
Underneath prayer disappears adversity.
Pepper Giardino
I believe in prayer. It’s the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
Josephine Baker
Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed;
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
James Montgomery
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
Victor Hugo
Sunbeams out of the clouds
Faith out of all my doubt.
Emme Woodhull-B�che
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.
Jonathan Swift
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
Abraham Lincoln
Prayer is a triumph, in whatever form.
Mirakel Reves
It is of course possible to dance a prayer.
Glade Byron Addams
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
Richard Sibbes
Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
Ambrose Bierce
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
Adam Clarke
God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no.
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God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.
Mother Teresa
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.”
O. Hallesby
Your prayer can be poetry, and poetry can be your prayer.
Noelani Day
I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.
Mignon McLaughlin
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo
Prayer draws us near to our own souls.
Herman Melville
What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours.
Helga Bergold Gross
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us – an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation.
E. Stanley Jones