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Prayer Quotes

The top of this page is made of devotional writers: Bill Hybels, the fourth-century monk Evagrius Ponticus, Shakespeare, the seventh-century bishop Isaac of Nineveh and Muhammad. The sourced counterweight is sceptical. Bertrand Russell, in 1952, says things go as we wish through knowing natural laws, not through prayer and humility, and Bierce, in 1911, defines to pray as asking that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy.

A weather prayer credited to General Patton is flagged misattributed. A line saying a Christian without prayer is as impossible as being alive without breathing is credited to Martin Luther King Jr. and disputed, and a “thank you” variant attributed to Meister Eckhart is disputed as well.

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Most quoted on prayer:

Whenever you face any difficulty, grief or concern you should bow down in prayer before Allah the Almighty alone.

Mirza Masroor Ahmad

You should develop the habit of offering voluntary prayers (nafl) regularly.

Mirza Masroor Ahmad

We have the power of prayer and we want to pray every time we are afraid; in this case, we must pray that the flow of lava will stop.

Luigi Bommarito

The black-winged Erinnys
Will never enter those homes where the hands are lifted up in prayer,
And the gods have accepted their offerings.

Georgiana Chatterton The Heiress and Her Lovers (1863)

The old priest now knows that man errs, and that this often produces only temporary effects, so that what ultimately makes complete sense is precisely prayer.

Vittorino Andreoli

Sleep, exercise, prayer, and reading new things.

Rosalind Picard

"I draw my strength from the Holy Spirit. Every song I release is a product of prayer and fellowship with God."

Bidemi Olaoba

Thanks for all the support and prayers.🙏❤️ You are much loved and appreciated.

Bucy Radebe

Most prayers have nothing in common with petitions.

G. I. Gurdjieff In Search of the Miraculous (1949)

Instead of the Sermon on the Mount, under the scorching sun, to up-raised arms and sobbing people, there is drowsy prayer in a magnificent abbey.

Yevgeny Zamyatin On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters (1923)

Sending prayers of love to everyone who suffers from depression.

Zenande Mfenyana

Prayer made only out of habit, without a contrite heart for the sins committed, is not pleasing to God.

Silouan the Athonite

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

I know that the LORD is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the LORD'S side.

Abraham Lincoln

“And what guidance did you receive for all your prayers, lady?”
She bit her lip. “None.”

Lois McMaster Bujold The Hallowed Hunt (2005)

They who have steeped their souls in prayer
Can every anguish calmly bear.

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

From every place below the skies
The grateful song, the fervent prayer,—
The incense of the heart, —may rise
To heaven, and find acceptance there.

John Pierpont

The Good Prayer and Psalm 91 used together attain such a great spiritual force that they can even save one's life in death strains.

Peter Deunov

Humanly, left to ourselves, we are incapable of doing a divine work, our power comes from God and it is in prayer and faith that it finds its source.

Marcel Utembi Tapa

Time is a space marked out and filled with the ceaseless chanting of prayers by which a devout Jew measures his life.

Margo Glantz The Family Tree (1981)

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