All Quotes

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.
‐‐ Charles Studd

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
‐‐ Chiang Kai-shek

Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision.
‐‐ George W. Romney

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
‐‐ Mark Batterson

Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

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

Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
‐‐ Charles Bent

Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world.
‐‐ Myles Munroe

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

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

Prayer is so complicated.
‐‐ Rachel Kushner

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.
‐‐ Josh McDowell

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

Prayer is the medium of miracles; in whatever way works for you, pray right now.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
‐‐ Henri Nouwen

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
‐‐ Martin Farquhar Tupper

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
‐‐ Philip James Bailey

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

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
‐‐ Kelsey Grammer

Prayer is where the action is.
‐‐ John Wesley

Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer-leadership preserves the spirituality of the Church, just as prayerless leaders make for unspiritual conditions.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
‐‐ E. Stanley Jones

Prayer must be broad in its scope - it must plead for others. Intercession for others is the hallmark of all true prayer. When prayer is confined to self and to the sphere of one's personal needs, it dies by reason of its littleness, narrowness and selfishness.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
‐‐ John Buchan

Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator.
‐‐ Julian Baggini

Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
‐‐ Adam Clarke

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.
‐‐ John Selden

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
‐‐ George Herbert

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

Prayers not felt by us are seldom heard by God.
‐‐ Philip Henry

Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
‐‐ Roald Dahl

Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families.
‐‐ Michael Enzi

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.
‐‐ Juanes

Praying in Jesus' name makes the distinction that all glory and honor belong to Christ, who is one with God the Father.
‐‐ Monica Johnson

Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.
‐‐ Gypsy Rose Lee

Praying men are God's agents on earth, the representative of government of Heaven, set to a specific task on the earth.
‐‐ Edward McKendree Bounds

Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life.
‐‐ Lionel Blue

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.
‐‐ Peace Pilgrim

Pre-Christmas is very important, and it is stressful, and, you know, even in the biblical story... travelling on the donkey in a stressful environment.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Pre-existing conditions for those previously insured must not lead to someone being unable to get insurance.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

Pre-Internet, maybe it took six months for a fashion message to get across to a customer base. Fashion messages are now being sent out overnight, simultaneously, to every market in the world.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet