Prayer Sayings and Quotes

"A person without prayer is like a tree without roots." Pope Pius XII

"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow." Benjamin Franklin

"Pray as though no work would help, and work as though no prayer would help." German Proverb

"God does not listen to the prayers of the proud." Hebrew Proverb

"Prayer is conversation with God." Clement of Alexandria

"When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message." Oswald Chambers

"Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness." Phillips Brooks

"Every time you pray if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education." Fyodor Dostoevski

"All I know is that when I pray, coincidences happen; and when I don't pray, they don't happen." Dan Hayes

"Prayer is the pillow of religion." Proverb

"Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine." Andrew Murray

"No man ever prayed heartily without learning something." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us." Socrates

"To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees."Billy Graham

"Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts." George Buttrick

"Seven days without prayer makes one weak." Allen E. Bartlett

"I have lived to thank God that not all my prayers have been answered." Jean Ingelow

"The greatest prayer is patience." Buddha

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle." Phillips Brooks

"Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night." Thomas Fuller

"It is possible to move men, through God, by prayer alone." Hudson Taylor

"Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes." Etty Hillesum

"Your Father knoweth what things you have need of, before ye ask him." The Bible, Matthew 6:8

"The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; nor those who say they believe in prayer; nor yet those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time to pray." S.D. Gordon

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden." Corrie Boom

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees." Victor Hugo

"The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it." Josh Billings

"Prayers are the very highest energy of which the mind is capable." Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate." Charles Stanley

"The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through." Edna St. Vincent Millay

"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him." Pearl Bailey

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

"One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer." G. E. Lessing

"To pray well is the better half of study." Martin Luther King

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart." Mahatma Gandhi