Quotes about Prayer
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction.
— Barbara Kingsolver
If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline.
— Bill Hybels
God does not hear the prayers of a Jew.
— Jerry Falwell
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
— DA Carson
God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'
— Jimmy Carter
Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen.
— Anne Lamott
Frequently the burden or concern in the spirit is for prayer.
— Watchman Nee
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
— Jimmy Carter
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
— Henri Nouwen
Prayer is happening, and it is not necessarily something that I am doing. God is happening, and I am lucky enough to know that I am in The Midst.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person.
— CS Lewis
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up.
— Thomas Adams