PRAYER QUOTES VI

quotations about prayer


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You should never trust a person who prays in public.

STEPHEN KING
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Tags: Stephen King


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

CORRIE TEN BOOM

attributed, Pleasant Dreams: nighttime meditations for peace of mind


Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

HOSEA BALLOU

Treasury of Thought

Tags: Hosea Ballou


Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

GEORGE MEREDITH

The Ordeal of Richard Feverel

Tags: George Meredith


PRAY, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary

Tags: Ambrose Bierce


Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?

CORRIE TEN BOOM

attributed, The Power of Prayer to Heal and Transform Your Life


Prayer unaccompanied with a fervent love of God, is like a lamp unlighted; the words of the one without love being as unprofitable as the oil and cotton of the other without flame.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine

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If a man obeys the gods they're quick to hear his prayers.

HOMER

The Iliad

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Often when you ask for one thing you receive another, this is the mysterious thing about prayer, we address them to heaven with some private intention, but they choose their own path, sometimes they delay, allowing other prayers to overtake them, frequently they overlap and become hybrid prayers of dubious origin, which quarrel and argue among themselves.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Baltasar and Blimunda

Tags: José Saramago


God's answers are wiser than our prayers.

CROFT M. PENTZ

The Complete Book of Zingers


In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature.

EKNATH EASWARAN

God Makes the Rivers Flow


Suppose your prayers aren't answered. What do you say? "Well, it's God's will." "Thy will be done." Fine, but if it's God's will, and He's going to do what He wants to anyway, why the f*** bother praying in the first place? Seems like a big waste of time to me! Couldn't you just skip the praying part and go right to His will? It's all very confusing.

GEORGE CARLIN

You Are All Diseased

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Prayer is the weary soul of Herod's dancer,
Dancing before blind kings without applause.

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

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Prayer is the expression of desire; its value comes from our inward aspirations, from their tenor and their strength. Take away desire, the prayer ceases; increase or diminish its intensity, the prayer soars upward or has no wings. Inversely, take away the expression while leaving the desire, and the prayer in many ways remains intact. Has a child who says nothing but looks longingly at a toy in a shop-window, and then at his smiling mother, not formulated the most moving prayer? And even if he had not seen the toy, is not the desire for play, innate in the child as is the thirst for movement, in the eyes of his parents a standing prayer which they grant?

ANTONIN SERTILLANGES

The Intellectual Life


A lot of folks would do more prayin' if they could find a soft spot for their knees.

KEN ALSTAD

Savvy Sayin's

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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.

MAHATMA GANDHI

Young India, January 23, 1930

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Rapt into still communion that transcends
The imperfect offices of prayer and praise,
His mind was a thanksgiving to the power
That made him; it was blessedness and love!

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The Excursion

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Any heart turned Godward feels more joy
In one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raised
By all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

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Prayer that craves a particular commodity -- any thing less than all good -- is vicious.

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

"Self-Reliance"

Tags: Ralph Waldo Emerson


Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

GORDON B. HINCKLEY

Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes