Prayer

Quotes about prayer can be almost as powerful as the act of praying itself. Inspiring prayer quotes can be the seeds of your future prayers, or reflect the precious gifts that prayer brings to your daily life. Turn to prayer quotes for a quick connection to your faith life.

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Latest Prayer Quotes

Pray for blessings, not things.

Jim Louden, Retired Air Force captain

When you sing, you pray twice.

Johnny Cash, quoted in daughter Rosanne’s CD, Black Cadillac

I love prayers. I love the idea that…five times a day I make the affirmation that I am about to enter into the presence of God and offer my prayers.

Gwendolyn Zorah Simmons, Professor, University of Florida

I prayed hard and gradually became aware that this…was a way of finding…entrance into my own writing. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that he had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the world.

Pat Conroy, Author

To say a prayer is not enough. One has to believe that it’s possible for that prayer to be heard.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, Dean and founder of the Simon Wiesenthal Center

Often a healing takes place in ourselves as we pray for the healing of others.

Michael E. DeBakey, surgeon

It’s all right—questions, pain, stabbing anger can be poured out to the Infinite One….Our wounded ragings will be lost in him and we will be found.

Susan Lenzkes, Author

Prayer is a choice. For us to pray…shows that we are choosing to leave an opening in our spirits. Without this opening, there is no vessel, no place into which God can breathe.

Joanna Laufer, Author

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

Max Lucado, Author

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

Robert Schuller, Founder of the Crystal Cathedral

I strongly suspect that if we saw all the difference even the tiniest of our prayers make, and all the people those…prayers were destined to affect…we would be so paralyzed with awe…that we would be unable to get up off our knees for the rest of our lives.

Peter Kreeft, Author

To begin to pray is to open a book with no end.

Seraphim Sigrist, Author
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