Prayer Quotes - page 5

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime. (Albert Pike)
We must resist wandering thoughts in prayer. Raising our hands reminds us that we need to raise up our minds to God, setting aside all irrelevant thoughts. View quote
John Calvin
Build it and they will come” is not a strategy; it's a prayer. View quote
Steve Blank
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. View quote
Daniel Defoe
One of the most potent ways to spiritualize the home is to create a sacred space, an altar, or a room used only for meditation, prayer, or spiritual reading. [...] Your sacred place will become an area of high spiritual vibrations which will affect the entire house, thereby attracting pious personalities. Having a sacred space will also remind you that your home belongs to God and that you are simply the caretaker of it. View quote
Bhakti Tirtha Swami
Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength. View quote
Rosa Parks
Teach me to feel that Thou art always nigh; Teach me the struggles of the soul to bear; To check the rising doubt, the rebel sigh; Teach me the patience of unanswered prayer. View quote
George Croly
Prayer sometimes dulls the hunger of the pauper, like a mother's finger thrust into the mouth of her starving baby. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
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'. View quote
Ivan Turgenev
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen." View quote
Byron Katie
35. Prayer is an ascent of the spirit to God. (Evagrius Ponticus)
I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last. View quote
Lydia Maria Child
My last vestige of "hands-off religion" respect disappeared in the smoke and choking dust of September 11, 2001, followed by the "National Day of Prayer", when prelates and pastors did their tremulous Martin Luther King impersonation and urged people of mutually incompatible faiths to hold hands, united in homage to the very force that caused the problem in the first place. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers; it is the only prayer that deserves an answer, - good, honest, noble work. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. View quote
Hippocrates
As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere. View quote
Victor Hugo
Prayer is a universal phenomenon in the soul-life of man. It is the soul's reaction to the terrors and joys, the uncertainties and dreams of life. View quote
Joseph H. Hertz
The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
This is my prayer for all of us-"Lord, increase our faith." Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt.... Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future.... Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow. View quote
Gordon B. Hinckley
Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky. (Lord Byron)
Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. View quote
Kathleen Norris
We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. View quote
William Shakespeare
It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat. View quote
Naguib Mahfouz
It is the prayer of my innermost being To realize my supreme identity In the liberated play of consciousness, The Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation. View quote
Alex Grey