This is our Lord's will... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. — Julian of Norwich
Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. — William Shakespeare
God's thoughts of you are many, let not yours be few in return. — Charles Spurgeon
No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer. — Jim Cymbala
Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos — Beth Moore
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. — Watchman Nee
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. — Socrates
May God always keep us this way
In peace, love and affection. — Cesaria Evora
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less. — Pope John XXIII
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them. — Arthur W. Pink
We are never more than one grateful thought away from peace of heart. — David Steindl-Rast
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer. — Gotthold Lessing
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. — Doris Lessing
If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories. — Scott Hahn
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind. — Helen Steiner Rice
Short Prayerful Quotes
Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. — John Calvin
All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer. — Isaac Newton
Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart. — Maximilian Kolbe
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. — John Bunyan
The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer. — Barack Obama
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. — Meister Eckhart
A man who is intimate with God will never be intimidated by men. — Leonard Ravenhill
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God. — Arthur W. Pink
You pray for the hungry. Then you feed them. That's how prayer works. — Pope Francis
Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone. — David Livingstone
Prayerful Image Quotes
Blessed are those who believe when there is no evidence of an answer to prayer. — David Wilkerson
You have one business on earth – to save souls. — John Wesley
If the only prayer you ever say is "thank you", that will be enough.
One Way: Jesus! One Job: Evangelism! — T.L. Osborn
There is a mighty lot of difference between saying prayers and praying. — John G. Lake
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. — John Knox
Sometimes, you just have to bow your head, say a prayer, and weather the storm.
Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. — Reinhold Niebuhr
Prayer is when you talk to god, meditation is when god talks to you.
In Our Thoughts And Prayers Quotes
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone. — Ignatius of Loyola
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts. — Mother Teresa
I want to thank everyone for the overwhelming love and support for my mother. She is resting comfortably and is with our family. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts and prayers. — Sayings
Prayer is the key to heaven but faith unlocks the door.
God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede. — Oswald Chambers
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. — Edward McKendree Bounds
Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion. — Elisabeth Elliot
God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is no.
A journal is a great way to keep track of what happens daily in your walk with God and to record your prayers and thoughts. — David Jeremiah
Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union. — Richard J. Foster
When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave
To do the like; our bodies but forerun
The spirit's duty. True hearts spread and heave
Unto their God, as flow'rs do to the sun.
Give him thy first thoughts then; so shalt thou keep
Him company all day, and in him sleep. — Henry Vaughan
The only way our faith will ever strengthen is for us to use it. We need to apply thought and prayer to our decisions and then trust God for the outcome. We need to set our sights on growing in faith, not shrinking back for fear of failure. — Lysa TerKeurst
Today's Quotes
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. — Bil Keane
Realistic expectations for life are that we are going to be better today than we were yesterday, be better tomorrow than we were today. That's a plan for success. So [the key is] simple: just work. — Jim Harbaugh
If the only prayer you said was "Thank you", that would be enough.
Today's sensitive male has learned to share in open frank discussions about relationships like, "Where the hell did you get a crazy idea like that? You been reading Redbook again?" — Lewis Grizzard
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today is a result largely of training—belonging to man's learned behavior. — John B. Watson
Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground. — Rosa Parks
What you cannot achieve with your efforts, you can achieve with prayer.
God's Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach. — Smith Wigglesworth
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present — Mahatma Gandhi
In today's rush we all think too much, seek too much, want too much and forget about the joy of just Being. — Eckhart Tolle
Be patient. God is using today's difficulties to strengthen you for tomorrow. He is equipping you. The God who makes things grow will help you bear fruit. — Max Lucado
Thoughts And Prayers Quotes
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him. — Arthur W. Pink
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. — Francis of Assisi
Water has a memory and carries within it our thoughts and prayers. As you yourself are water, no matter where you are, your prayers will be carried to the rest of the world. — Masaru Emoto
Prayer is the key of the morning and bolt of the evening.
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. — Brother Lawrence
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts. — David Brainerd
Yesterday evening I received a call that a person had located a body and the investigators from SDSD Homicide Division described our beloved mother, Sally Estabrook. Thank you all for your prayers, your good thoughts, and positive vibes. — Dave Mustaine
Under certaion circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
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
My mother would be so touched by the tributes and prayers that we have received from around the world. Her condition remains serious but she is receiving the best treatment and care possible. We ask that you continue to keep her in your thoughts as we pray for her recovery. — Melissa Rivers
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon... — Terry Pratchett
God shapes the world by prayer. The more prayer there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces of against evil — Edward McKendree Bounds
Our Prayers Quotes
I believe the prayers of 30 years ago are not lost. We may not see the results of our labour or sacrifice immediately, but in due time they will produce much fruit. — T. B. Joshua
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying. — Abraham Joshua Heschel
We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him. — Elizabeth Ann Seton
If the only prayer you ever say is "Thank you", that will be enough.
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
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. — George Balanchine
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions. — John Wesley
Never underestimate the amazing power of prayer.
More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
To sweat is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self. Sweat
is holy water, prayer beads, pearls of liquid that release your past.
The more you dance... the more you sweat, the more you pray. The more
you pray, the closer you are to ecstasy. — Gabrielle Roth
Prayer is the greatest power God has put into our hands for service - praying is harder than doing, at least I find it so, but the dynamic lies that way to advance the Kingdom. — Mary Slessor
Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word of prayer, that food which by assimilation nourishes our flesh and blood, is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus. — Justin Martyr
Praying For You Quotes
Just because they say they're praying for you in your face, doesn't mean they aren't laughing at your struggle behind your back. — Trent Shelton
Not everyone will be happy when you begin to better yourself. Those who are for you will not just celebrate in your triumphs, but they will also pray with you through your tribulations. — T. D. Jakes
You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge to Satan. — John Bunyan
Believe the best about people. Pray for their short comings. You are not the standard. We all need grace. — LeCrae
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire? — Corrie Ten Boom
Be careful what you ask for because when you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud as well. — Denzel Washington
The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love. — Corrie Ten Boom
If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart. — Saint Augustine
God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life and may I burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you, Lord Jesus. — Jim Elliot
Continued Prayers Quotes
In order to enjoy the Word, we ought to continue to read it, and the way to obtain a spirit of prayer, is, to continue praying; for the less we read the Word of God, the less we desire to read it, and the less we pray, the less we desire to pray. — George Muller
Prayer pulls the rope below and the great bell rings above in the ears of God. Some scarcely stir the bell, for they pray so languidly. Others give but an occasional pluck at the rope. But he who wins with heaven is the man who grasps the rope boldly and pulls continuously, with all his might. — Charles Spurgeon
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
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. — Alphonsus Liguori
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. — E. Stanley Jones
Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its prayer to the Great Spirit, for not only men, but all things and all beings pray to Him continually in differing ways. — Black Elk
Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God. — Jane Frances de Chantal
Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you. — Rick Warren
We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification. — Paul Washer
People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak. — Al-Ghazali
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