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Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Sep 29, 2025
The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
Go where your best prayers take you.
There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.
Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.
There is no other place where the heart should be so free as before the mercy seat. There, you can talk out your very soul, for that is the best prayer that you can present. Do not ask for what some tell you that you should ask for, but for that which you feel the need of, that which the Holy Spirit has made you to hunger and to thirst for, you ask for that.
Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.
A good deed is the best prayer.
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me,' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.' A woman I know says, for her morning prayer, 'Whatever,' and then for the evening, 'Oh, well,' but has conceded that these prayers are more palatable for people without children.
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
God shapes the world by prayer.
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
No learning can make up for the failure to pray. No earnestness, no diligence, no study, no gifts will supply its lack.
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.
'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist.
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Prayer breaks all bars, dissolves all chains, opens all prisons, and widens all straits by which God's saints have been held.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Prayer does not fit us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.
Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful, than that of a continual conversation with God; those only can comprehend it who practice and experience it.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.
There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying.
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
Give us this day our daily mask.
You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.
O, do not pray for easy lives.
Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.
When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.