PRAYER QUOTES VI

quotations about prayer

My prayer begins when I remember to pray. Or maybe before then. Is there something that stirs inside, that precedes and gives rise to the thought of praying? Is it biochemistry? Is it the soul? Does the soul long to touch and be touched by its source?

RICHARD CHESS

"My Prayer Is Not Prayer", Patheos, May 11, 2016


Prayer is a nonlocative, nongeographic space that one enters at one's own peril, for it houses God during those few moments of one's presence there, and what is there will most surely change everything that comes into it. Prayer, its opal walls polished to transparency by the centuries of hands that have touched them, is the Tabernacle realized and the wayside chapel utilized. Ever traveling as we travel, moving as we move, prayer grips like home, until the heart belongs nowhere else and the body can scarcely function apart from them both. Prayer is dangerous and the entrance way to wholeness.

PHYLLIS TICKLE

Prayer Is a Place

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You should never trust a person who prays in public.

STEPHEN KING

Duma Key

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Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

CORRIE TEN BOOM

attributed, The Power of Prayer to Heal and Transform Your Life


None of us should get so busy in our lives that we cannot contemplate with prayer. Prayer is the passport to spiritual power.

SPENCER W. KIMBALL

"Fortify Your Homes Against Evil", April 1979


PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India, January 23, 1930

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Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork.

JOHN STEINBECK

The Grapes of Wrath

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Rapt into still communion that transcends
The imperfect offices of prayer and praise,
His mind was a thanksgiving to the power
That made him; it was blessedness and love!

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The Excursion

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Prayer is not to get God to change His will. If we really believe that the will of God is perfect, then why would we want Him to change it?

DAVID JEREMIAH

"4 Questions Answered on the Importance of Prayer"

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What returns does prayer show? None, if it is real prayer. For prayer is for growth. We can therefore, never return to what we were thank heaven, for we are growers. So prayer is a call. And it's answered by a call. We call up and we are called on. We're summoned, told to advance, to grow. That's the nerve of prayer, as prayer is the nerve of religion.

GERALD HEARD

Reflections


Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can by influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish. However, we must concede that our actual knowledge of these forces is imperfect, so that in the end the belief in the existence of a final, ultimate spirit rests on a kind of faith.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

letter to Phyllis (a child), January 24, 1936

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He that will learn to pray, let him go to Sea.

GEORGE HERBERT

Jacula Prudentum

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Suppose your prayers aren't answered. What do you say? "Well, it's God's will." "Thy will be done." Fine, but if it's God's will, and He's going to do what He wants to anyway, why the f*** bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me! Couldn't you just skip the praying part and go right to His will? It's all very confusing.

GEORGE CARLIN

You Are All Diseased

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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

GEORGE MEREDITH

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

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Prayer that craves a particular commodity -- any thing less than all good -- is vicious.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Self-Reliance"

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God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


Every person has his own ideas of the act of praying for God's guidance, tolerance, and mercy to fulfill his duties and responsibilities. My own concept of prayer is not as a plea for special favors nor as a quick palliation for wrongs knowingly committed. A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God.

WALT DISNEY

Deeds Rather Than Words

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Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda

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I pray you'll be our eyes, and watch us where we go.
And help us to be wise in times when we don't know
Let this be our prayer, when we lose our way
Lead us to the place, guide us with your grace
To a place where we'll be safe

CELINE DION

"The Prayer"