Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Lucado

For those who never pray, maybe now you will. For those of us who attempt to pray, maybe we can pray more.

Max Lucado

That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer.

Max Lucado

Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

May Sarton

Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.

Maureen McGovern

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it.

Matthew Henry

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

Matthew Henry

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Matthew Henry

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Matthew Henry

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Matthew Henry

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

Matthew Henry

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Matthew Henry

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

Matthew Henry

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

Matthew Henry

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

Matthew Henry

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

Matthew Henry

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Matthew Henry

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Matthew Henry

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

Marianne Williamson

No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

Marianne Williamson

Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading.

Marianne Williamson

You don't have to pray to attract great things, because great things are attracted to you already. Pray that you won't throw them away once they get here.

Marianne Williamson

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

Marilyn Manson

Better pray for hell, not hallelujah.

Mary Karr

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

Mary Karr

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

Melody Beattie

Prayer changes things. Prayer changes us. Prayer changes life. Sometimes an event has been manifested that needs to be stopped, midair. Don't pray just when you're in trouble. Pray every day. Surround yourself with prayer. You never know when you might need an extra miracle.

Martha Reeves

I pray for miracles. I have always found prayer to bring quick results.

Mark Driscoll

Sometimes prayer moves the hand of God, and sometimes prayer changes the heart of the person who is praying.

Theodore Parker

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

Theodore L. Cuyler

It will require more than a few hours of fasting and prayer to cast out such demons as selfishness, worldliness, and unbelief. Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and of conduct.

Theodore L. Cuyler

Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

Theodore L. Cuyler

The firmament of the Bible is ablaze with answers to prayer.

Margaret Fuller

Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom.