50 Inspirational Quotes About Prayer to Uplift Your Spirit

"Find an experience fully God-centered, asking of God no gift more urgently than His presence, the gift of Himself, joyous to the highest degree, and unmistakably real."

- C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms

"Prayer is a surge of the heart, it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."

- St. Therese of Lisieux

"Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God."

- St. John Damascene

"It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without heart."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him."

- St. Augustine

"Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of Containing God's gift of himself."

- Mother Theresa

"Pray without ceasing"

- Thessalonians 5:17

"Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and tumult of a thousand men."

- Kahlil Gibran

".....a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God. This relationship is prayer."

- Catechism of the Catholic Church

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

- St. Augustine

"Pray as you can, not as you can't."

- Dom Chapman

"Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself."

- St. John Vianney

"The whole reason why we pray is to be united into the vision and contemplation of God to whom we pray."

- Julian of Norwich

"“Well, I do think someone might have arranged about our meals,” “I'm sure Aslan would have, if you'd asked him,” said [the horse]. “Wouldn't he know without being asked?” [asked the girl]. “I've no doubt he would,” said the Horse (still with his mouth full). “But I've a sort of idea he likes to be asked.”"

- C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew

"I believe that it is impossible to grasp all the different forms of prayer without great purity of heart and soul. There are as many forms of prayer as there are states of soul. A person pays in a certain manner when cheerful and in another when weighed down by sadness or a sense of hopelessness. When one is flourishing spiritually, prayer is different from when one is oppressed by the extent of one's struggles."

- John Cassian

"Therefore, when you decide to undertake this work of prayer and feel by grace that you are called by God, lift up your heart to God with a meek stirring of Love."

- Cloud of Unknowing

"If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is 'thank you' that would suffice."

- Meister Eckhart

"Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

- Teresa of Avila

"A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The wish to pray is a prayer in itself."

- Georges Bernanos

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Prayer is not an old woman's amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Any concern too small to be turned into prayer is too small to be made into a burden."

- Corrie Ten Bloom

"God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer."

- Mother Teresa

"And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about 'proper' praying, just talk to God."

- Richard J. Foster

"Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."

- Satchel Paige

"Prayer, then, is a matter of our participating in the life of Jesus Christ."

- Michael Casey

"The value of persistent prayer is not that God will hear us, but that we will finally hear God."

- William McGill

"Work as if everything depends on you. Pray as if everything depends on God."

- St. Ignatius Loyola

"Give me faith, Lord, and let me help others find it."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you."

- Matthew 5:44

"True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that. It is a spiritual transaction with the creator of Heaven and Earth."

- Charles Spurgeon

"A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil which abounds in weeds. His majesty roots up the weeds and will put in good plants instead. Let us reckon that this is already done when the soul decides to practice prayer and has begun to do so."

- Saint Teresa of Avila

"You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."

- C.S. Lewis

"There is variation in our prayer because we look toward God from different vantage points. Our situation changes; we develop and are subjected to a range of external factors. Our situation can also change because we deliberately choose to seek further into the mystery of God."

- Michael Casey

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me."

- C.S. Lewis

"We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us."

- C.S. Lewis

"A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep."

- C.S. Lewis

"A clergyman once said to me that a railway compartment, if one has it to oneself, is an extremely good place to pray in “because there is just the right amount of distraction.” When I asked him to explain, he said that perfect silence and solitude left one more open to the distractions which come from within, and that moderate amount of external distraction was easier to cope with."

- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

"A man can’t be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it."

- C.S. Lewis, Reflections on the Psalms

"We have long since agreed that if our prayers are granted at all they are granted from the foundation of the world. God and His acts are not in time. Intercourse between God and man occurs at particular moments for the man, but not for God."

- C.S. Lewis

"He has infinite attention to spare for each one of us. He does not have to deal with us in the mass. You are as much alone with Him as if you were the only being He had ever created."

- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Almost certainly God is not in Time. His life does not consist of moments following one another. If a million people are praying to Him at ten-thirty tonight, He need not listen to them all in that one little snippet which we call ten-thirty. Ten-thirty --and every other moment from the beginning of the world-- is always the Present for Him. If you like to put it that way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashed in flames."

- C.S. Lewis

"What I mean is this. An ordinary simple Christian kneels down to say his prayers. He is trying to get into touch with God. But if he is a Christian he knows that what is prompting him to pray is also God: God, so to speak, inside him. But he also knows that all his real knowledge of God comes through Christ, the Man who was God – that Christ is standing beside him, helping him to pray, praying for him. You see what is happening. God is the thing to which he is praying – the goal he is trying to reach. God is also the thing inside him which is pushing him on – the motive power. God is also the road or bridge along which he is being pushed to that goal. So that the whole threefold life of the three-personal Being is actually going on in that ordinary little bedroom where an ordinary man is saying his prayers."

- C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

"Meantime, however, we want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are. And if my idea of prayer as “unveiling” is accepted, we have already answered this. It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us."

- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

"We say that we believe God to be omniscient; yet a great deal of prayer seems to consist of giving him information."

- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

"And, perhaps, as those who do not turn to God in petty trials will have no habit or such resort to help them when the great trials come, so those who have not learned to ask Him for childish things will have less readiness to ask Him for great ones. We must not be too high-minded. I fancy we may sometimes be deterred from small prayers by a sense of our own dignity rather than of God’s."

- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

"Forgive us …. As we forgive…. To forgive for the moment is not difficult. But to go on forgiving, to forgive the same offence again every time it recurs to the memory---there’s the real tussle."

- C.S. Lewis

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."

- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

"As if we said, “In my ignorance I have asked for A, B, and C. But don’t give me them if you foresee that they would in reality be to me either snares or sorrows.”… If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now?"

- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

"I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self-knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose."

- C.S. Lewis, Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

"Four things let us ever keep in mind: God hears prayer, God heeds prayer, God answers prayer, and God delivers by prayer."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer succeeds when all else fails."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer makes a godly man, and puts within him the mind of Christ, the mind of humility, of self-surrender, of service, of pity, and of prayer. If we really pray, we will become more like God, or else we will quit praying."

- E.M. Bounds

"No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame."

- E.M. Bounds

"The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day."

- E.M. Bounds

"We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. It surmounts or removes all obstacles, overcomes every resisting force and gains its ends in the face of invincible hindrances."

- E.M. Bounds

"Pray without ceasing; continue in prayer; continuing instant in prayer; in everything by prayer, let your request be made known unto God; pray always, pray and not faint; men should pray everywhere; praying always, with all prayer and supplication."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer is God’s plan to supply man’s great and continuous need with God’s great and continuous abundance."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God’s saints have been held."

- E.M. Bounds

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

- Martin Luther

"God does nothing except in response to believing prayer."

- John Wesley

"If we would pray aright, the first thing we should do is to see to it that we really get an audience with God, that we really get into His very presence. Before a word of petition is offered, we should have the definite consciousness that we are talking to God, and should believe that He is listening and is going to grant the thing that we ask of Him."

- Dr. R. A. Torrey

"Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that he will listen to mine."

- Andrew Murray

"God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil."

- Mother Teresa

"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

"There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer."

- D.A.T. Pierson

"Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between his will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees."

- Billy Graham

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

- Kierkegaard

"Prayer is not overcoming God’s reluctance, but laying hold of His willingness."

- Martin Luther

"Beware in your prayers, above everything else, of limiting God, not only by unbelief, but by fancying that you know what He can do. Expect unexpected things ‘above all that we ask or think.’"

- Andrew Murray

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

- E.M. Bounds

"Mind how you pray. Make real business of it. Let it never be a dead formality…plead the promise in a truthful, business-like way…Ask for what you want, because the Lord has promised it."

- Charles Spurgeon

"Where there is much prayer, there will be much of the Spirit; where there is much of the Spirit, there will be ever-increasing prayer."

- Andrew Murray

"A godly man is a praying man. As soon as grace is poured in, prayer is poured out. Prayer is the soul’s traffic with Heaven; God comes down to us by His Spirit, and we go up to Him by prayer."

- Thomas Watson

"Every great movement of God can be traced to a kneeling figure."

- D. L. Moody

"There is no way that Christians, in a private capacity, can do so much to promote the work of God and advance the kingdom of Christ as by prayer."

- Jonathan Edwards

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

- Jonathan Edwards

"If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master’s presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in our Lord’s presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour will be very well employed."

- St. Francis de Sales

"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

"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

"What the church needs today is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men who the Holy Spirit can use—men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Spirit does not come on machinery but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men—men of prayer."

- E. M. Bounds

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

- Oswald Chambers

"Nothing tends more to cement the hearts of Christians than praying together. Never do they love one another so well as when they witness the outpouring of each other's hearts in prayer."

- Charles Finney

"The one concern of the devil is to keep Christians from praying. He fears nothing from prayerless studies, prayerless work, and prayerless religion. He laughs at our toil, mocks at our wisdom, but trembles when we pray."

- Samuel Chadwick

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden."

- Corrie ten Boom

"The amount of time we spend with Jesus — meditating on his Word and his majesty, seeking his face — establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom."

- Charles Stanley

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

- Hudson Taylor

"Worship and intercession must go together; the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray."

- Oswald Chambers

"The great people of the earth today are the people who pray, (not) those who talk about prayer."

- S.D.Gordon

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

- E. Stanley Jones

"Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving him and focusing our attention on him are the most important."

- Charles Stanley

"All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice."

- J.H. Jowett

"Work, work, from morning until late at night. In fact, I have so much to do that I shall have to spend the first three hours in prayer."

- Martin Luther

"Prayer is no petty duty, put into a corner; no piecemeal performance made out of the fragments of time which have been snatched from business and other engagements of life; but it means that the best of our time, the heart of our time and strength must be given."

- E.M. Bounds

"Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies."

- Frank C. Laubach

"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

"God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede."

- Oswald Chambers

"To desire revival... and at the same time to neglect (personal) prayer and devotion is to wish one way and walk another."

- A.W. Tozer

"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

"Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural."

- Oswald Chambers

"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

"If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship."

- A.W. Tozer

"I'm convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit. Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that's not the issue. The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes a period of time."

- Charles Stanley

"The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to him, and allow him to permeate our spirits."

- Charles Stanley

"Learn to worship God as the God who does wonders, who wishes to prove in you that he can do something supernatural and divine."

- Andrew Murray

"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

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

- Saint Teresa of Avila

"There is a place where thou canst touch the eyes Of blinded men to instant, perfect sight; There is a place where thou canst say, "Arise" To dying captives, bound in chains of night; There is a place where thou canst reach the store Of hoarded gold and free it for the Lord; There is a place — upon some distant shore — Where thou canst send the worker and the Word. Where is that secret place--dost thou ask, "Where?" O soul, it is the secret place of prayer!"

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

- John Bunyan

"The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'"

- Billy Graham

"Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God."

- Edwin Keith

"To pray well is the better half of study."

- Martin Luther

"Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul."

- Hannah More

"If the heart wanders or is distracted, bring it back to the point quite gently and replace it tenderly in its Master's presence. And even if you did nothing during the whole of your hour but bring your heart back and place it again in our Lord's presence, though it went away every time you brought it back, your hour will be very well employed."

- St. Francis de Sales

"I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was, to have my soul happy in the Lord. The first thing to be concerned about was not, how I might serve the Lord, how I might glorify the Lord; but how I might get my soul into a happy state, and how my inner man may be nourished.... I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the Word of God and to meditation of it."

- George Müller

"Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."

- Mother Teresa

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

- John Lewis

"I can no longer condemn or hate a brother for whom I pray, no matter how much trouble he causes me. His face, that hitherto may have been strange and intolerable to me, is transformed into the countenance of a brother for whom Christ died, the face of a forgiven sinner."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Think of what He can do, and how He delights to hear the prayers of His redeemed people. Think of your place and privilege in Christ, and expect great things!"

- Andrew Murray

"Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren."

- C. H. Spurgeon

"Giving thanks is the very life of prayer."

- E.M. Bounds

"God does not bestow His gifts on the casual of hasty comers and goers. Much with God alone is the secret of knowing Him and of influence with Him."

- E.M. Bounds

"Life growing in its purity and devotion will be a more prayerful life."

- E.M. Bounds

"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

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

- William Wilberforce

"True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth."

- Charles Spurgeon

"'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

"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers."

- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."

- Mahalia Jackson

"Prayer is man's greatest power!"

- W. Clement Stone

"Appreciation is the highest form of prayer, for it acknowledges the presence of good wherever you shine the light of your thankful thoughts."

- Alan Cohen

"Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth."

- Philip James Bailey

"God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'"

- Rick Warren

"It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer."

- George Müller

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night."

- Thomas Fuller

"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

"Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night."

- George Herbert

"The greatest benefactor this age could have is the man who will bring the teachers and the church back to prayer."

- E.M. Bounds

"Sainthood’s piety is made, refined, perfected, by prayer. The gospel moves with slow and timid pace when the saints are not at their prayers early and late and long."

- E.M. Bounds

"What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use - men of prayer, men mighty in prayer."

- E.M. Bounds

"Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still."

- E.M. Bounds

"True prayer must be aflame. Christian life and character need to be all on fire."

- E.M. Bounds

"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

"God draws mightily near to the praying soul."

- E.M. Bounds

"You know the value of prayer: it is precious beyond all price."

- E.M. Bounds

"Without devotion prayer is an empty form, a vain round of words."

- E.M. Bounds

"God cannot help hearing the prayer of an obedient child."

- E.M. Bounds

"To see God, to know God, and to live for God-these form the objective of all true praying."

- E.M. Bounds

"He who would pray, must obey. He who would get anything out of his prayers, must be in perfect harmony with God. Prayer puts into those who sincerely pray a spirit of obedience, for the spirit of disobedience is not of God and belongs not to God's praying hosts."

- E.M. Bounds

"An obedient life is a great help to prayer. In fact, an obedient life is a necessity to prayer, to the sort which accomplishes things. The absence of an obedient life makes prayer an empty performance, a mere misnomer. A penitent sinner seeks pardon and salvation and has an answer to his prayers even with a life stained and debauched with sin. But God's royal intercessors come before him with royal lives. Holy living promotes holy praying. God's intercessors "lift up holy hands," the symbols of righteous, obedient lives."

- E.M. Bounds

"Enthusiasm is more active than faith, though enthusiasm cannot remove mountains nor call into action any of the omnipotent forces which faith can command. Activity is often at the expense of more solid, useful elements, and generally to the total neglect of prayer. To be too busy with God’s work to commune with God, to be busy with doing church work without taking time to talk to God about His work, is the highway to backsliding, and many people have walked therein to the hurt of their immortal souls."

- E.M. Bounds

"Wise is he in the day of trouble who knows his true source of strength and who fails not to pray."

- E.M. Bounds

"All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God."

- Louis Zamperini

"Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed."

- Ramana Maharshi

"PRAYER, praise and thanksgiving all go in company."

- E.M. Bounds

"Man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those chambers upright, with the Lord's Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet."

- E.M. Bounds

"I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself."

- Harold E. Hughes

"God’s acquaintance is not made hurriedly."

- E.M. Bounds

"You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment. In that insight of inter-being, it is possible to have real communication with the Earth, which is the highest form of prayer."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"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."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer."

- Monica Johnson

"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

"I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other."

- Harvey Fierstein

"The little estimate we put on prayer is evident from the little time we give to it."

- E.M. Bounds

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

- Guru Nanak

"As it is the business of tailors to make clothes, and the business of cobblers to mend shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray!"

- Martin Luther

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow."

- Benjamin Franklin

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

- John Masefield

"In worship, God imparts himself to us."

- C.S.Lewis

"An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate."

- Rev. Charles Stanley

"Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God."

- Oswald Chambers

"Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers."

- J. Sidlow Baxter

"The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... the fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down."

- Campbell Morgan

"There must be the inward worship within the shrine if there is to be outward service."

- Alexander MacLaren

"History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer."

- Edwin Orr

"All I know is that when I pray, coincidences happen; and when I don't pray, they don't happen."

- Dan Hayes

"God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope, and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction."

- Richard Cecil

"I have lived to thank God that not all my prayers have been answered."

- Jean Ingelow

"Study your prayers, a great part of my time is spent getting in tune for prayer."

- Robert McCheyne

"We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth."

- Charles Stanley

"Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, he isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment."

- Charles Stanley

"We can be tired, weary, and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that he injects into our bodies energy, power and strength."

- Charles Stanley

"The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts."

- Richard Alleine

"What is love if it be not fiery? What are prayers if the heart be not ablaze? They are the battles of the soul."

- Samuel Chadwick

"What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul."

- Corrie ten Boom

"Spiritual work is taxing work, and men are loath to do it. Praying, true praying, costs an outlay of serious attention and of time, which flesh and blood do not relish."

- E.M. Bounds

"Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down."

- William Gurnall

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

- Voltaire

"The devil is aware that one hour of close fellowship, hearty converse with God in prayer, is able to pull down what he hath been contriving and building many a year."

- Flavel

"Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer."

- David Bryant

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"

- Corrie ten Boom

"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

"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

"Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things ...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value."

- Teilhard de Chardin

"The proof is in the pudding. If you put your mind and hard work and prayer into what you do, it will happen."

- Latto

"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

"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

"If your day is hemmed in with prayer, it is less likely to come unraveled."

- Cynthia Lewis

"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

"All I know is that when I pray, coincidences happen; and when I don’t pray, they don’t happen."

- Dan Hayes

"About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation."

- Will Rogers

"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

"'Safe Harbor' is a state of mind... it's the place - in reality or metaphor - to which one goes in times of trouble or worry. It can be a friendship, marriage, church, garden, beach, poem, prayer, or song."

- Luanne Rice

"As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school."

- Cokie Roberts

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being."

"Do not make prayer a monologue...make it a conversation."