Prayer Quotes

If the only prayer you say in your whole life is 'thank you,' that would suffice. (Meister Eckhart)
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
[On religion] I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. View quote
Frank Sinatra
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. View quote
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. Dr. Joseph Murphy. View quote
Joseph Murphy
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. View quote
Teresa of Ávila
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. (Margaret Mead)
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. View quote
Nat Turner
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life. View quote
Thomas S. Monson
I'm not unmindful of man's seeming need for faith; I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. But to me religion is a deeply personal thing in which man and God go it alone together, without the witch doctor in the middle. View quote
Frank Sinatra
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. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. View quote
André Gide
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. View quote
George Meredith
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it. View quote
Voltaire
God hears a mother's prayer. View quote
Victoria Gotti
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life. (Joseph Murphy)
A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. View quote
Tennessee Williams
The prayer of Ajax was for light. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not by prayer and humility that you cause things to go as you wish, but by acquiring a knowledge of natural laws. View quote
Bertrand Russell
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. View quote
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing