Need inspiration to pray? Read these powerful prayer quotes and see how your prayer life is improved! A must read. Prayer includes the entire you hope. The whole life meets him, and He enters you. Prayer is a blessing and the wish of the soul is real. We should step past ritual and checklist prayers to pray meaningfully, even like we inquire in faith and do so like we respectfully persevere in trialing our faith, even as we humbly consider and agree that “not my will, but Thine, be finished. In prayer, a heart without words is stronger than words with a mouth. Top 45 motivating quotes on prayer the lovely life meditation about life.
Inspirational Quotes About Prayer
1. “Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.” — Mary Baker Eddy
2. “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.” — L. Lionel Kendrick
3. “Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level.” — Gary Busey
4. “True prayer is not asking God for love; it is learning to love, and to include all mankind in one affection. Prayer is the utilization of the love wherewith He loves us.” — Mary Baker Eddy
5. “I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.” — Gabrielle Bernstein
6. “Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.” — Henry B. Eyring
7. “Work is a prayer, and I start off every morning dedicating it to our Creator.” — Joe Murray
8. “All I’m saying is, is God the god who we look to for comfort during tragedies? Is he the god who can control all those things, or is he the god that we don’t even trust with our daily lives… As long as there’s prayer and exams, as long as there’s games, there will be prayers.” — Benjamin Watson
9. “If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day… what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer?” — Jim Webb
10. “I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.” — Henry Paulson
11. “Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.” — William Wilberforce
12. “I think that’s a struggle of every Christian, to be able to get to that point where they’re in constant prayer with God – so that everything they do, in thought, in speech, in work, is praising God and worshipping God.” — Troy Polamalu
13. “The traditional religious right’s failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.” — Jon Meacham
14. “Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.” — Henry B. Eyring
15. “In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.” — Tony Campolo
16. “The soul of a woman is so important to maintain given all that is on our plates. Figuring out how to do it can be a little tricky. My prayer was, ‘Lord, please help me. How can I do it all and not be overwhelmed? How can I do it all and still be happy?’ His answer: Find the stolen moments of joy in all you do.” — Niecy Nash
17. “God’s way of answering the Christian’s prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.” — Richard Cecil
18. “My prayer became ‘May I find peace… May I love this life no matter what.’ I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.” — Tara Brach
19. “Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else, disrupting the delusion that we’re permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we’re saved!) other people are real again, and we’re fond of them.” — George Saunders
20. “Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.” — Johannes Tauler
21. “You pray for things and accept the blessings when they come, you know? And it is about how you talk to yourself and what you say morning, noon and night about what you want to happen in your life. Some folks call that creative visualization. Other people call it prayer. But it is about that message that you send out there to yourself.” — Al Jarreau
22. “I sang at the Inaugural prayer service at the National Cathedral.” — Michael W. Smith
23. “The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.” — Liam Neeson
24. “Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.” — Johannes Tauler
25. “I always said a prayer before I ran, and my prayer was to win. My prayer was that God would allow me to run my best on that day, or better than my best. So whatever the outcome is, I have to be satisfied with it if I know I gave it my best effort.” — Gail Devers
26. “Repentance, prayer, and pondering over the scriptures are essential parts of our qualifying for the gifts of the Spirit in our priesthood service. Further magnification of our power to serve will come as we respond with faith to go forward in our callings with the Holy Ghost to help us.” — Henry B. Eyring
27. “I offer my performance as prayer for someone I’ve worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.” — Liam Neeson
28. “When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.” — David Brainerd
29. “My husband is Dutch, and his family, when you sat down to eat food at the table, you never left the table until you ate living bread and drank living water. They never left the table until they’d read Scripture together. So morning, lunch, suppertime, Scripture was always read at the table, and then there was prayer to close.” — Ann Voskamp
30. “I do believe in the power of prayer.” — Geraldine Ferraro
31. “My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.” — Toby Keith
32. “Older boys were allowed to beat younger ones at my 15th-century English boarding school, and every boy had to run a five-mile annual steeplechase through the sludge and rain of an October day, as horses do. We wrote poems in dead languages and recited the Lord’s Prayer in Latin every Sunday night.” — Pico Iyer
33. “Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.” — Adam Clarke
34. “Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.” — Philip James Bailey
35. “In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.” — John Bunyan
36. “Just the same way I’d say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.” — Rick Allen
37. “When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It’s gospel, and gospel is the truth. It’s what I do. I’m going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.” — Mavis Staples
38. “Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what’s wrong with that?” — Dennis Quaid
39. “I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.” — Pat Robertson
40. “I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn’t as important as what you do on the inside.” — Alana Stewart
41. “Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.” — John Buchan
42. “Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate.” — David A. Bednar
43. “Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.” — Adoniram Judson
44. “It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.” — Pierce Brosnan
45. “The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God the Holy Spirit can turn the situation around in five minutes.” — Os Guinness
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These quotes on prayer combine the wisdom of many Christian people who have walked closely with God. From Elizabeth Elliot through C.S. Lewis and Martin Luther, take a moment to be inspired by the truths they put into such eloquent (English) prose.
