Prayer Quotes

"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."

"Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life."

"The NFL has been an amazing page in this chapter of my life. I pray that all successive adventures offer me the same potential for growth, success and most importantly fun."

"The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself."

"Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day."

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

"I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live."

"My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer."

"Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it."

"I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you."

"Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things."

"I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness."

"God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers."

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them."

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."

"There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer."

"We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything."

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying."

"When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith."

"As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer."

"Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness."

"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."

"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."

"I love my children. That will never change. I have prayed to them for forgiveness and hope that they will forgive me. I never meant to hurt them!!"

"For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God."

"When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic."

"Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it."

"Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe."

"The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past."

"I pray God may preserve your health and life many years."

"Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self."

"I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections."

"In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic."

"Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise."

"Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again."