Famous Quotes & Sayings

George MacDonald

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

Emmet Fox

You must pray for yourself constantly. How could it be otherwise? We worship God by believing in Him, trusting Him, and loving Him wholeheartedly - and we can attain to that only through prayer. The sole object of our being here is that we may grow like Him - and we can do that only through prayer. The more we pray for ourselves the more power will our prayers have for any other purpose whatever; so praying for ourselves is the reverse of selfishness - it is truly glorifying God.

Emmet Fox

If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.

Elizabeth George

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on.

Elizabeth George

Asking in prayer helps you to see your problem in the light of God's power.

Elizabeth George

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

Elizabeth George

What a blessing to be able to leave the cares of life for a brief period and spend time in the outstretched arms of your Shepherd, rubbing, as it were, your cheek against His face in intimate fellowship through prayer.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Your tears are my prayers.

Elizabeth Gilbert

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

Elizabeth Gilbert

meditation vs prayer = listening vs talking

Joseph Hall

Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or none: as, indeed, He hath most reason to claim all that made all. But this is nothing but a crafty fetch of Satan; for he knows that if he have any part, God will have none: so the whole falleth to his share alone.

Joseph Hall

Good prayers never come creeping home. I am sure I shall receive either what I ask, or what I should ask.

Karen Armstrong

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer.

Joyce Meyer

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

Joyce Meyer

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Joyce Meyer

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Joyce Meyer

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

Joyce Meyer

Spending time with God through prayer and His Word is a prerequisite for having a great life and fulfilling your purpose.

Joyce Meyer

Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace.

Joyce Meyer

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Karen Joy Fowler

You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them.

Leonard Bernstein

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

Leonard Cohen

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

L. Lionel Kendrick

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

John Keble

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

John Keats

All writing is a form of prayer.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him.

Lois McMaster Bujold

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Lois McMaster Bujold

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

Lyndon B. Johnson

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.