Category: Prayer Quotes SMS

Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart.  ~Ruth Graham

Certain thoughts are prayers.  There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.  ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862lcd

When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep. ~Author Unknown

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~B. Graham Dienert

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God.  If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said.  At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord?  I have nothing more to say to Thee, […]

Pray, v.  To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.  ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911lcd

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.  ~John Keble

When prayers go up, blessings come down. ~Author Unknown

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.  ~Will RogersCUL

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.  ~Richard Sibbes

Pray on the shadowy hillside of hardship and on the sunny hillside of happiness.  ~Terri Guillemets

When we talk to God, we’re praying.  When God talks to us, we’re schizophrenic.  ~Jane Wagner, In Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, 1985, performed by Lily Tomlin

Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.  ~Satchel Paige, 1974BQ

Prayer draws us near to our own souls, and purifies our thoughts.  ~Herman Melville, Mardi and A Voyage Thither, 1849, ch. 111, "The Visit the Lake of Yammo" CTO

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. ~Adam Clarke

What we usually pray to God is not that His will be done, but that He approve ours.  ~Helga Bergold Gross

We cannot ask in behalf of Christ what Christ would not ask Himself if He were praying.  ~A.B. Simpson

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.  ~Samuel M. Shoemaker

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.  ~Austin O’Malley

Prayer is communication with the Divine.  It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do.  However it is expressed, it is never in vain.  ~Donna Wilk Cardillo2009-10mail

When we pray, our hearts glow a glorious joy that lights our souls and all the world around us.  ~Terri Guillemets

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.  ~Richard J. NeedhamBTSG

Prayer must never be answered:  if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.  ~Oscar WildeBTSG

The Lord’s Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. ~Frederick Denison Maurice

Oh! none are so absorb’d, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o’er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow’d, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken’d being, glide away;… ~Robert Montgomery, “Beautiful Influences,” A Universal Prayer; […]

Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day; give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.  ~Author Unknown

When you are unwell, you must cough, sneeze, and ache prayer.  ~Terri Guillemets

No one is a firmer believer in the power of prayer than the devil; not that he practices it, but he suffers from it.  ~Guy H. King

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.  ~Gerald Vann

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can’t pray a lie – I found that out. ~Mark Twain

Be thankful that God’s answers are wiser than your answers.  ~William Culbertson

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 Ingelcd

The Lord longs to hear all of our concerns – any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.  ~Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook

If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.  ~Ashleigh Brilliant

You know I ain’t never prayed before ‘Cause it always seemed to me That prayin’s the same as beggin’ Lord, I don’t take no charity. ~Steve Earle, "Tom Ames’ Prayer," 1994CTO

Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle.  Every prayer reduces itself to this:  "Great God, grant that twice two be not four."  ~Ivan Turgenev

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

"Give us this day our daily bread" is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language.  ~P.J. Wingate, quoted in the Wall Street Journal, 8 August 1977; BTSG

Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. ~Author Unknown qtd by Diana Robinson in The People’s Almanac