Saying A Prayer Quotes

Prevailing prayer is that which secures an answer. Saying prayers is not offering prevailing prayer. The prevalence of prayer does not depend so much on quantity as on quality.

Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God

I remember being at school during morning meeting and looking around at everybody, 350 kids, saying a prayer. We're all very young and no one knows what it means, and I remember feeling strange that people were just repeating words that they didn't understand. I refused to participate. For some reason I always rejected it, but respectfully.

I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."

Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.

There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank.

We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it's as though it achieves physical existence, becomes a hand all around us, cupping us together, protecting us. This is what people are always talking about when they talk about god: this feeling, of being held and understood and protected. feeling this way seems about as close to saying a prayer as you could get.

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

I’m saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It’s going to take us a miracle to get through this.” Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. “At least they’re getting more polite when they try to kill us,” Shane said.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way.

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.

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

God speaks in the silence of the heart.

The Family that prays together, stays together.

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

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

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

Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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.

Give us this day our daily mask.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

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

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

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

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

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.