Faith Quotes

"Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything."

- Saint Teresa of Avila

"Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct."

- Guru Nanak

"Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along."

- Mary Oliver

"God does not delay to hear our prayers because he has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, he may give us the more largely."

- Anselm of Canterbury

"Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen."

- Anjelica Huston

"Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith."

- Ellen G. White

"The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man."

- Pope Paul VI

"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."

- Nat Turner

"Get your mind right, get your spirit right, and get your body right. And keep it there. That requires working out; that requires fasting, eating well, prayer, and getting to know who you are. And not bending."

- Mya

"There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer."

- John Wooden

"Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens."

- Richard Rohr

"Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer."

- William Wilberforce

"Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life."

- Jonathan Edwards

"Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life's daily frustrations."

- Chuck Norris

"One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to make you distracted, to fill the people of God and the Church of God with so much noise and activity that there is no room for prayer. There is no room for being alone with God. There is no room for silence. There is no room for meditation."

- Paul Washer

"Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God."

- E. Stanley Jones

"I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you."

- Roy Orbison

"Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world."

- Myles Munroe

"The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer."

- Saint Augustine

"If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough."

- Meister Eckhart

"In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."

- Voltaire

"Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings."

- John Lewis

"You could remove the powerful preaching from our church and it would still continue. You could remove the administration of pastoral care through the cell group system and the church would still continue. But if you remove the prayer life of our church it would collapse."

- David Yonggi Cho

"The character of our praying will determine the character of our preaching. Light praying makes light preaching."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them."

- Richard Baxter

"Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused."

- Spurgeon

"God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays."

- John Masefield

"When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message."

- Oswald Chambers

"It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone."

- Hudson Taylor