Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wilberforce

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Laurence Sterne

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Billy Graham

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Billy Graham

Prayer is more than a wish; it is the voice of faith directed to God.

Billy Graham

Sometimes I'm asked to list the most important steps in preparing for an evangelistic mission, and my reply is always the same: prayer... prayer... prayer.

Billy Graham

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

Billy Graham

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

Billy Graham

Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.

Billy Graham

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Billy Graham

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

Billy Graham

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

Billy Graham

Remember: He WANTS your fellowship, and He has done everything possible to make it a reality. He has forgiven your sins, at the cost of His own dear Son. He has given you His Word, and the priceless privilege of prayer and worship.

Billy Graham

True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.

Billy Graham

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

Billy Graham

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

Billy Graham

Prayer is crucial in evangelism: Only God can change the heart of someone who is in rebellion against Him. No matter how logical our arguments or how fervent our appeals, our words will accomplish nothing unless God's Spirit prepares the way.

Billy Graham

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

Billy Graham

My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

Billy Graham

We can change the course of events if we go to our knees in believing prayer.

Billy Graham

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

Orson Scott Card

When you have a good romance, find ways to make their lives miserable and hellish...Do you think 'Titanic' would have been so popular if they had both lived? Not a prayer.

Orson Scott Card

One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is how God answers your prayers?

David Gates

We don't only give thanks and prayers for those who have fallen. We also give thanks to those that still serve.

Gloria Gaither

I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.

The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.

But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.

And let them remember that prayer should accompany the reading of Sacred Scripture, so that God and man may talk together; for "we speak to Him when we pray; we hear Him when we read the divine saying."

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

Hudson Taylor

Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not.

Alan Cohen

The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it.