Prayer Quotes

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Julia Margaret Cameron

Phillips Brooks

Georges Bernanos

John Selden

Frederick William Robertson

Nat Turner

Grigori Rasputin

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has almost the embodiment of a prayer.

Julia Margaret Cameron

Life may be brimming over with experiences, but somewhere, deep inside, all of us carry a vast and fruitful loneliness wherever we go. And sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us.

God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Fear not, the child will not die.

Grigori Rasputin

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rarther pious but Mr Salteena was not very addicted to prayers so he marched up to bed.

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Alexander Cockburn

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks

Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice. You lived first, and you are older than all need, older than all prayer. All things belong to you — the two-leggeds, the four-leggeds, the wings of the air and all green things that live. You have set the powers of the four quarters to cross each other. The good road and the road of difficulties you have made to cross; and where they cross, the place is holy. Day in and day out, forever, you are the life of things.
Therefore, I am sending a voice, Great Spirit, my Grandfather, forgetting nothing you have made, the stars of the universe and the grasses of the earth.

God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Do not grieve. The Little One will not die. Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much.

Grigori Rasputin

We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

Gary Vaynerchuk

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Frederick William Robertson

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Jonathan Edwards

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. God can ask no more than that of us.

Georges Bernanos

Narrated Anas: The Prophet offered the Fajr Prayer near Khaibar when it was still dark and then said, "Allahu-Akbar! Khaibar is destroyed, for whenever we approach a (hostile) nation (to fight), then evil will be the morning for those who have been warned." Then the inhabitants of Khaibar came out running on the roads. The Prophet had their warriors killed, their offspring and woman taken as captives. Safiya was amongst the captives, She first came in the share of Dahya Alkali but later on she belonged to the Prophet. The Prophet made her manumission as her 'Mahr'.

The prayer is one of the (primary) dictates of religion, in it lies the pleasure of the Lord, the Mighty and the Glorious, and it is the conduct of the Prophets.