Prayer Quotes

It's hard to criticize someone if you are praying for them.

Like an echo from a ruined castle, prayer is an echo from the ruined human soul of the sweet promise of God.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don't abandon me in the middle of
this adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Writing is prayer.

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

The Christian should work as if all depended upon him, and pray as if it all depended upon God.

Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.


I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

God used the element of faith to construct the earth and its inhabitants. Whatever he said, it came to pass, then dropped these elements in us to say whatever we want to also come to pass, but sin and disbelieve has murdered the faith in us and need to be ressurected by purity and strong will power.

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

Work, he tells them one night, is a kind of prayer.

Taking actions will fulfill your dreams and wishes, not the prayers and blessings.

I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.