Let your prayers be humble, short, but energick. – Countess Dowager of Carlisle, Thoughts in the Form of Maxims addressed to Young
The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort. – Will Rogers
To be present is to be prayerful. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart. – John Bunyan
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray. – John Keble
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. – Oscar Wilde
Prayer is communication with the Divine. It can be whispered or chanted or written or expressed in the work you do. However it is expressed, it is never in vain. – Donna Wilk Cardillo
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. – Henry Ward Beecher
Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion. – Jonathan Swift
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. – Abraham Lincoln
It is not eloquence, but earnestness, not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but compunction of soul. – Hannah More, “Prayer,” Practical Piety
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. – Richard Sibbes
Prayer is the coin paid to Gratitude. – Terri Guillemets
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. – Adam Clarke
God answers first the prayers we should have prayed. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
My father prayed because he had a good Friend with whom to share the problems of the day. – Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
When we pray, our hearts glow a glorious joy that lights our souls and all the world around us. – Terri Guillemets
God always answers our prayers, but sometimes the answer is no. – Author Unknown
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. – Mother Teresa
