My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
- George Santayana
Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers. (Ephesians 1:16).
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God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.
- Richard J. Needham
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
- Indian Proverb
Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving. (Colossians 4:2).
- Bible
Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
- Corrie ten Boom
There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
- Herbert Hoover
And Nuh did certainly call upon Us, and most excellent answerer of prayer are We. (The Rangers 37.75).
- quran
Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.
- William Culbertson
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
- Philip James Bailey
And that you should keep up prayer and be careful of (Your duty to) Him, and He it is to Whom you shall be gathered. (The Cattle 6.72).
- quran
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
- George Meredith
And those who respond to their Lord and keep up prayer, and their rule is to take counsel among themselves, and who spend out of what We have given them. (The Counsel 42.38).
- quran
Before we can pray, 'Lord, Thy Kingdom come,' we must be willing to pray, My Kingdom go.
- Alan Redpath
But when the prayer is ended, then disperse abroad in the land and seek of Allah's grace, and remember Allah much, that you may be successful. (The Congregation 62.10).
- quran
But if you are in danger, then (Say your prayers) on foot or on horseback; and when you are secure, then remember Allah, as He has taught you what you did not know. (The Cow 2.239).
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To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
- Victor Hugo
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
- Richard Sibbes
Attend constantly to prayers and to the middle prayer and stand up truly obedient to Allah. (The Cow 2.238).
- quran
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
- William Inge
Some stand on tiptoe trying to reach God to talk to him - you try too hard, friend - drop to your knees and listen to him, he'll hear you better that way.
- Ever Garrison
When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.
- Unknown
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.
- Samuel M. Shoemaker
Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
- Satchel Paige
When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.
- Saint Francis of Assisi
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill, they come only when they hurt.
- B. Graham Dienert
Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.
- Walter A. Mueller
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
- Henry Ward Beecher
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.
- John Bunyan
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.
- Abraham Lincoln
We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.
- A.B. Simpson
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill, they come only when they hurt.
- B. Graham Dienert
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
- Philip Melanchthen
But verily God hath heard me, he hath attended to the voice of my prayer. (Psalms 66:19).
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The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.
- Frederick Denison Maurice
