Quotes about Prayer
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
— Victor Hugo
Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.
— DL Moody
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
— CS Lewis
I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.
— Dorothy Day
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
— Oswald Chambers
We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.
— Pope John Paul II
If we ask of the saints how they achieved spiritual effectiveness, they are only able to reply that, insofar as they did it themselves, they did it by love and prayer.
— Evelyn Underhill
Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.
— Ignatius of Loyola
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
— Catherine Marshall