Saying A Prayer Quotes

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Corrie Ten Boom

Inspirational, Prayer, Worry

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I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone.

Dwight L. Moody

Death, Forgiveness, Prayer

Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.53, Moody Publishers

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Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Satchel Paige

Thanksgiving, Thank You, Baseball

Quoted in Deirdre Mullane, Words to Make My Dream Children Live: A Book of African American Quotations (1995)

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Great God, grant that twice two be not four.

Ivan Turgenev

Atheist, Two, Four

Poems in Prose "Prayer" (1881)

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Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Atheist, Prayer, Hands

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Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Hannah More

Prayer, Soul, Feelings

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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

Robert Frost

Forgiveness, Thinking, Forgive Me

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God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Mother Teresa

Prayer, Heart, Hunger For Love

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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Martin Luther

Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

Attributed in "Talking it over" by George Sweeting, (p. 88), September 1, 1979.

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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

John Bunyan

Love, Christian, Peace

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Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come. Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

Watchman Nee

Prayer, Track, Revival

Watchman Nee (1993). “The collected works of Watchman Nee”

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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

John F. Kennedy

Inspirational, Life, Strength

"Twenty Sermons". Book by Phillips Brooks, p. 330, 1886.

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O, do not pray for easy lives.

Phillips Brooks

Strength, Being Strong, Stay Strong

Phillips Brooks (1886). “Visions and Tasks: Sermons Fourth Series”

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When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

William Temple

Prayer, Coincidence, Praying

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We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer, Eye, Christian Inspirational

Oswald Chambers (2010). “Prayer: A Holy Occupation”, p.36, Discovery House

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Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

Adam Clarke

Prayer, Heart, Christian Inspirational

Adam Clarke (1835). “Christian Theology”, p.252

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Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.

S. D Gordon

Prayer, Doe, Purpose

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The Family that prays together, stays together.

Pope John Paul II

Christian, Together, Rosary

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Whatever you ask in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

Eckhart Tolle

Faith, Prayer, Believe

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You always leave the Rosary for later, and you end up not saying it at all because you are sleepy. If there is no other time, say it in the street without letting anybody notice it. It will, moreover, help you to have presence of God.

Josemaria Escriva

Catholic, Rosary, Helping

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God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

John Wesley

Prayer, Believe, Doe

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Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.

Watchman Nee

Prayer, Track, Revival

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God speaks in the silence of the heart.

Mother Teresa

Heart, Hunger For Love, Silence

Mother Teresa (1993). “The Best Gift is Love: Meditations”, Servant Books

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Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Mother Teresa

Prayer, Hands, Love And Kindness

Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

George Meredith

Spiritual, Prayer, Men

'The Ordeal of Richard Feverel' (1859) ch. 12

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