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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.

Random quote on Prayer

Most quoted on prayer:

We have only love,
to offer as a prayer,
for all the wrongs in the world.
So... like singing troubadours we’ll go,
singing love wherever we go.

Rod McKuen

"Training, Saying your Prayers and eating your Vitamins, is definitely the right way to live."

Hulk Hogan

The Lord listens to the monk as he prays the nightly prayers with a pure heart.
During the day the Lord makes him shine and will proclaim him pure.

Hyperechios

I am healthy and well, and I thank my friends and family for their prayers and support throughout my illness.

Thandiwe Banda

“This isn’t just a pop-up store, this is resilience, this is an answered prayer, and this is a dream I refuse to give up. This is only the beginning,”

Kim Chiu

He blessed me with more than just my prayers. He blessed me with a new life that is better than I could imagine.

LJ Reyes

How lucky we would be if we could save our enemies with our prayers.

Claude La Colombière

When we won the league, that's when I believed fasting and prayer works.

Mpho Makola

I don’t joke at all with my prayers when I want to begin any project and that has helped my creative process a lot.

Diana Hamilton

Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue.

Tom Robbins Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)

Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.

Bill Hybels Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

113. By true prayer a monk becomes another angel, for he ardently longs to see the face of the Father in heaven.

Evagrius Ponticus

150. Just as sight is the most worthy of the sense, so also is prayer the most divine of the virtues.

Evagrius Ponticus

Having lost a father and grandmother to gun violence, it is a familiar feeling to me, and I embrace the families of the victims in my heart and prayers.

Bernice King A Call for Prayer – and Action -- Against Violence in America (2012)

I am not so sure that’s what God has called you for, but we’ll put it in prayers. I’ll keep praying and when I return, we’ll revisit it.

Abimbola Fashola Abimbola Fashola, deliberate about teaching morals, upholding the value of education (2020)

65. If you long to pray, then avoid all that is opposed to prayer. Then when God draws near, he has only to go along with you.

Evagrius Ponticus

There is no true educator who is not a man of prayer through which he is clothed in the genuine spirit of Christ, the Teacher par excellence.

Giuseppe Lazzati

You pray, but hath your thought e'er weighed how empty vain the prayer must be,
That begs a boon already giv'en, or craves a change of law to see?

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

The time of day we choose for prayer doesn't matter, so long as we keep it faithfully. Prayer must be part of the rhythm of our daily lives.

Bill Hybels Too Busy Not to Pray (2008)

I hate prayers that ask God to ‘kill my adversaries’. How will they see me in all my purple glory?

Erelu Bisi Fayemi

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