Quotes with prayer

  • Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
  • To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
  • To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.
  • 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.
  • I couldn't get to sleep at night without saying the Lord's Prayer because, when I was young, I felt I was touched by the hand of Jesus, and hated myself for challenging it.
  • How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
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  • St. John of the Cross He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Voltaire In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Benjamin Watson All I'm saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don't even trust with our daily lives... As long as there's prayer and exams, as long as there's games, there will be prayers.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Back water rising, coming in my windows and doors I leave with a prayer in my heart: back water won't rise no more
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  • Bill Hybels Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Napoleon Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • John Newton If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer-His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.
    John Newton
     
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  • Meister Eckhart If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • John Bunyan In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
    John Bunyan
    British writer (1628 - 1688)
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  • Alice Walker 'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Alexander Cockburn A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Phillips Brooks A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
    Phillips Brooks
    American Minister, Poet (1835 - 1893)
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  • Doris Lessing A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Gotthold Lessing A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
    Gotthold Lessing
     
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  • Will Rogers About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Bill Hybels Adoration in prayer reminds us of God's identity and inclination. As we list his attributes, lifting up his character and personality, we reinforce our understanding of who he is.
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    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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