Inspirational Prayer Quotes

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. ~ Jodi Picoult

The most important thing we can pray about for others is that they will know God better and that He will help them understand His will, grow in spiritual wisdom, and live lives that honor Him. We can pray that they will become more like Him and bear the fruit of His Spirit. ~ Stormie O'martian

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God. ~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o'er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God, I need your help.
Work Your wonders.
Your Power is needed at this time.
You're the only One who can help us.
Come, Lord! ~ Sunshine Rodgers

May I remember the goodness of the Lord at all times. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When I pray for another person, I am praying for God to open my eyes so that I can see that person as God does, and then enter into the stream of love that God already directs toward that person. ~ Philip Yancey

We've assembled a group of people, your team, people who love you and pray for you. Take a look around the circle. These people represent thousands of words spent in prayer before the throne of God, begging for your safe return to the fold, begging for your peace, your faith, your heart. ~ Nicole O'Dell

Keep me safe, keep me from harm, keep me in your loving arms. ~ Mindy Starns Clark

Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank You for this place in which we dwell, for the love accorded us this day, for the hope with which we expect the morrow; for the health, the work, the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful; for our friends in all parts of the earth. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind. Spare us to our friends, soften us to our enemies. Bless us, if it may be, in all our innocent endeavors; if it may not, give us strength to endure that which is to come that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation, temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death, loyal and loving to one another. We beseech of you this help and mercy for Christ's sake. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that our praying, henceforth, should be an expression of the soul's sincere desire. ~ E. M. Bounds

The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. ~ Georges Bernanos

Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray
with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom. ~ Anne Lamott

The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father. ~ Andrew Murray

When the heart gets into prayer, every beat of the heart creates a miracle. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

I want to tell you a growing conviction with me, and that is that as we obey the leadings of the Spirit of God, we enable God to answer the prayers of other people. I mean that our lives, my life, is the answer to someone's prayer, prayed perhaps centuries ago.
It is more and more impossible to me to have programmes and plans because God alone has the plan, and our plans are only apt to hinder Him, and make it necessary for Him to break them up. I have the unspeakable knowledge that my life is the answer to prayers, and that God is blessing me and making me a blessing entirely of His sovereign grace and nothing to do with my merits, saving as I am bold enough to trust His leading and not the dictates of my own wisdom and common sense. ~ Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the most powerful resource we have in this life; yet, many only turn to it as a last resort. When unbelievers pray for repentance of sin and ask for God's forgiveness, prayer is the spiritual dynamite that obliterates the darkness and despair of a sin-soaked soul. ~ Franklin Graham

But the Esquire passage I found most poignant and revealing was this one: Mister Rogers' visit to a teenage boy severely afflicted with cerebral palsy and terrible anger. One of the boys' few consolations in life, Junod wrote, was watching Mister Rogers Neighborhood.

'At first, the boy was made very nervous by the thought that Mister Rogers was visiting him. He was so nervous, in fact, that when Mister Rogers did visit, he got mad at himself and began hating himself and hitting himself, and his mother had to take him to another room and talk to him. Mister Rogers didn't leave, though. He wanted something from the boy, and Mister Rogers never leaves when he wants something from somebody. He just waited patiently, and when the boy came back, Mister Rogers talked to him, and then he made his request. He said, 'I would like you to do something for me. Would you do something for me?' On his computer, the boy answered yes, of course, he would do anything for Mister Rogers, so then Mister Rogers said: I would like you to pray for me. Will you pray for me?' And now the boy didn't know how to respond. He was thunderstruck... because nobody had ever asked him for something like that, ever. The boy had always been prayed for. The boy had always been the object of prayer, and now he was being asked to pray for Mister Rogers, and although at first he didn't know how to do it, he said he would, he said he'd try, and ever since then he keeps Mister Rogers in his prayers and does ~ Tim Madigan

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me. ~ William Nicholson

Every life you touch, every difference you make, every prayer you pray makes the world a better place. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd

How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here? ~ Jonathan Edwards

Prophecy is a possibility. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying. ~ Karl Rahner

I don't write people off. They write Me off. I want us to be friends and I want you to trust me. I love you. I always have. I always will. I am by your side and I'm going to be with you, no matter what." - God ~ Sunshine Rodgers

Satan trembles, when he sees the weakest Saint upon his knees. ~ William Cowper

Every prayer victory makes it easier to believe the next time. ~ Lori Hatcher

In the life of Moses, in Hebrew folklore, there is a remarkable passage. Moses finds a shepherd in the desert. He spends the day with the shepherd and helps him milk his ewes, and at the end of the day he sees that the shepherd puts the best milk he has in a wooden bowl, which he places on a flat stone some distance away. So Moses asks him what it is for, and the shepherd replies 'This is God's milk.' Moses is puzzled and asks him what he means. The shepherd says 'I always take the best milk I possess, and I bring it as on offering to God.' Moses, who is far more sophisticated than the shepherd with his naive faith, asks, 'And does God drink it?' 'Yes,' replies the shepherd, 'He does.' Then Moses feels compelled to enlighten the poor shepherd and he explains that God, being pure spirit, does not drink milk. Yet the shepherd is sure that He does, and so they have a short argument, which ends with Moses telling the shepherd to hide behind the bushes to find out whether in fact God does come to drink the milk. Moses then goes out to pray in the desert. The shepherd hides, the night comes, and in the moonlight the shepherd sees a little fox that comes trotting from the desert, looks right, looks left and heads straight towards the milk, which he laps up, and disappears into the desert again. The next morning Moses finds the shepherd quite depressed and downcast. 'What's the matter?' he asks. The shepherd says 'You were right, God is pure spirit, and He doesn't want my milk.' Mose ~ Anthony Bloom

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts. ~ Richard Alleine

Amen" means 'Yes', it is done, glory to God! ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord will deliver us from every chain of sin, slavery and bondage. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people's needs ... God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together. ~ Charles F. Stanley

Lord, to the degree I don't want to do this, bless me. ~ Luci Swindoll

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something. ~ Karen Kingsbury

When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go through a practice of meditation and prayer, we loosen our egoic grip on a sense of self that is separate from the Whole and become vehicles of the emergent evolutionary paradigm of love, peace , compassion, wisdom, harmony and oneness that seeks expression on the planet. ~ Michael Beckwith

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. ~ Garth Brooks

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting and there is no real fast without prayer. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

Sometimes it takes a loss before we can understand what it means to be found. ~ Linda Evans Shepherd

From Love Under a Dark Sky:
In the universe vast
We share a simple feast
Among creatures equally earthbound.
Let us raise our hearts in gratitude,
Our eyes in expectation
Of a greater supper yet
In heavenly realms. ~ Shellie Foltz

I am unable to believe in a God susceptible to prayer. I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits, and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds. ~ Quentin Crisp

Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself. ~ Elisabeth Elliot

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.'" Moira smiled as she quoted the ancient sage, then shrugged. "It made sense to me. After that, I started laying my problems and needs before God and asking for grace and guidance and whatever other virtues he thought I needed. ~ Irene Hannon

The purpose of prayer is not to change God's mind, which always knows your wholeness and your deservingness. The purpose of prayer is to change your mind so you can see through the eyes of God. ~ Alan Cohen

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it. ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

What a blessed habit I have found my prayer list, morning by morning, it takes me via the Throne of all Grace straight to the intimate personal heart of each one mentioned here, and I know that He Who is not prescribed by time and geography answers immediately. ~ Oswald Chambers

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

Dear God, I don't want my fear to be a barrier to the blessings you are trying to bestow. Cast out my fear, and help me to trust your perfect love. But also grant me a full measure of wisdom. Do not let me be led astray by my own desires. If it is not your will that I pursue a relationship with Levi, I pray that you will stop me. Make your message so clear that I cannot argue it away. Protect me, Lord, and show me the way I should go. ~ Karen Witemeyer

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught ... ~ Thomas Aquinas

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it. ~ John Wesley

God and His acts are not in time. ~ C.S. Lewis

If you wait, you can have what you want, ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Nothing is too big for [God] to handle and nothing is so small that it's unworthy of His attention. There is no such thing as a silly prayer. ~ Teresa Santoski

If you ever seem to be sliding back into the very thing you've already been set free of, don't even waste time getting discouraged. Often what seems like the same old thing coming back again may be a new layer surfacing that needs to come off. You're not going backwards - you are going deeper. ~ Stormie O'martian

After much prayer, careful study and reliance on the Holy Spirit, I have concluded this about Christ's intercession for us. Jesus died on the cross to purchase peace with God for me – and He is in heaven now to maintain that peace, for me and in me. ~ David Wilkerson

Change your thought life to a prayer life. ~ Carla Mcdougal

Tal was looking at Hank when he said, "Just a moment. I want to hear it one more time."
As they watched, Bernice found her way to Hank and Mary. She began to week openly, and spoke some quiet but impassioned words to them. Hank and Mary listened, as did the others nearby, and as they listened, they began to smile. They put their arms around her, they told her about Jesus, and then they began to weep as well. Finally, as the saints were gathered and Bernice was surrounded with loving arms, Hank said the words, "Let's pray ... ~ Frank E. Peretti

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

Your desire is your prayer. ~ Joseph Murphy

I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer will still be heard. I believe that someone in that great somewhere hears every word. ~ LeAnn Rimes

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. ~ Jacqueline Winspear

Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability. ~ Peter H. Davids

God hears your every thought, whether you dress it up with 'Thee' and 'Thou' or not. ~ Catherine Richmond

Satan is a relentless tormenter; you have to be a relentless Scripture Confessor until satan flees."
- Tytenisha, Confessions of a Praying Woman ~ Tytenisha L. Osgood

For those who have already experienced the grace of Almighty God through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, prayer becomes the catalyst for fellowship with the Lord of our souls, redeemed by his blood. By tapping into the channel by which we commune with the One who calls his children "friends," we can receive his strength in our weakness; his guidance in our steps; and his mercy when we stumble along life's path. ~ Franklin Graham

Grace is all that God is free to do for you, in you, with you and through you only because of the finished work of Jesus Christ. ~ Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

My Dear Lord, please help me. Place me in the Center of Your Perfect Will.
Adoro te devote, latens Deitas.
Bread of Life by bread concealed, speaking heart to heart.
Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit.
Let Your presence draw me in here my senses fail.
Visus cactus, gustus in te falliti.
This is truth enough for me.
Peto quod petivit latro paenitens.
Seeing You upon the Cross, flesh and blood, I find.
Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intueor.
I see not but name You still God and Prince of Life.
O memoriale mortis Domini.
How I thirst to meet Your gaze gloriously revealed. After life's obscurity, let me wake to see. Beauty shining from Your Face for eternity.
Amen. ~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

I believe with faith all is possible. An answer to prayer is greatest positive feedback you can get. ~ J. R. Martinez

All the seeming "coincidences" ... were actually God catching me in his arms. ~ Shirley Corder

If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him. ~ John Newton

Don't pray when you feel like it. Have an appointment with the Lord and keep it. ~ Corrie Ten Boom

I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him. ~ Ravi Zacharias

May God sanctify every soul. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A fearless mind is fearless because, it cannot see anything different from it. Fear of superiority and power comes only when we begin to differentiate. ~ Rajasaraswathii

He had heard a voice, a voice in his own heart, which had commanded him to seek rest under this tree, and he had neither preferred self-castigation, offerings, ablutions, nor prayer, neither food nor drink, neither sleep nor dream, he had obeyed the voice. To obey like this, not to an external command, only to the voice, to be ready like this, this was good, this was necessary, nothing else was necessary. ~ Hermann Hesse

Since I got rid of syndicated and indoctrinated media my life is a product of what I seek and not what I am told. I recommend everyone in the age of information to demand more of what they seek rather simply pushing the favorite list on their remote control. ~ James Emlund

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly and wants to rip to shreds all your erroneous notions of the truth that make you fight within yourself, dear one, and with others, causing the world to weep on too many fine days ... The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out. ~ Hafez

It's easy to complain about your life - how tough it is, how unfair it is, how stressful it is, how everyone else has it much better. But if you step into the life of someone you envy for a day, you'll discover that everyone has their own problems, and they're usually worse than yours. because your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow. ~ Kevin Hart - I Can't Make This Up

Being a messenger of love is all about caring for every person in your orbit unconditionally and ceaselessly. The harder the other person makes it for you, the more love you need to send their way. ~ Pooja Ruprell

Loose lips sink ships. ~ Erwin Rommel

May your life shine like the morning sun. ~ Debasish Mridha

Love is the substance with which God created the omniverse. ~ Stefan Emunds

With your spare time and money, make a difference for those who can't afford a life. ~ Debasish Mridha

Keeping your eyes shut to envision your dreams does nothing to create the reality you're being told to build by your subconscious. ~ Jes Fuhrmann

In this Music [the singing of the angels in harmony] the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of the Ainur,and they beheld it as a light in the darkness. ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better. ~ Dan Gable

Today, I will look around & enjoy all the beautiful things that are around me rather than yearn for things that are beyond my control & become miserable.-RVM ~ R.v.m.

Learn the art of living. Make your life as an ageless art, then you will never grow older. ~ Debasish Mridha

God created hunger for our growth. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The courage to be different. This is a brave path to follow in a society that sometimes become very cruel. ~ Maria Karvouni

It's really difficult to pretend that you are happy when you actually are not in a state to face someone!! ~ Sachin Jha

People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. ~ Mary Hunter Austin

It's only when we acknowledge God as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that we can receive His love for us. ~ Stormie O'martian

Our ideas, like orange-plants, spread out in proportion to the size of the box which imprisons the roots. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I will change you like a remix, then I'll raise you like a Phoenix ~ Fall Out Boy

Then as she looked up in his face, he smiled most sweetly and said something he had never said before, You have one real beauty, Much-Afraid, you have such trustful eyes. Trust is one of the much beautiful things in the world. When I look at the trust in your eyes I find you more beautiful to look upon than many a lovely queen. ~ Hannah Hurnard

It is clear to me that "religions" are the invention of man, and therefore exhibit all the strengths and weaknesses of human nature. ~ Ronald R. Cooke

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers ~ Zoroaster

The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

The world has long forgotten, but we mountain-dwellers live in the prayer wheel of time. ~ David Mitchell