1.“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” -Soren Kierkegaard
2.“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” -Mahatma Gandhi
3. “I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
4.“I talk to God but the sky is empty.” -Sylvia Plath
5.“Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one” -Bruce Lee
6.“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.” -Robert Frost
7.“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.” -Abraham Lincoln
8. “Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.” -Mark Twain
9.“Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.” -Gordon B. Hinckley
10.“If the only prayer you said was thank you, that would be enough.” -Meister Eckhart
11.“You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.” -Kahill Gibran
12.“The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.” -Rick Warren
13.“Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” -Jennifer Elisabeth
14.“A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.” -Tennessee Williams
15.“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.” -John Bunyan
16.“Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?” -Corrie Ten Boom
17.“God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change.” -Dan Brown
18.“May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in.” -Mother Teresa
19.“I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.” -Martin Luther
20.“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.” -Corrie Ten Boom
21.“I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.” -Jennifer Elisabeth
22.“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.” -Terry Pratchett
23.”I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.” -Abraham Lincoln
24.”Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.” -Joyce Meyer
25.”Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” -Kierkegaard
26.”Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural.” -Oswald Chambers
27.”God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: ‘Use me.” -Rick Warren
28. “Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.” -Ted Dekker
29.“If we would turn the time we spent discussing the other’s life into prayer time instead, no telling what would happen to the glory of God.” -Beth Moore
30. “Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.” -John F. Kennedy
31.”The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.” -Adrian Rogers
32.”God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil.” -Mother Teresa
33.”God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.” -Mother Teresa
34.”To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.” -Billy Graham
35.”It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.” -Henry Ward Beecher
36.”You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time.” -Billy Graham
37.For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. -Saint Teresa of Avila
38.Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them. -Mahalia Jackson
39.Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. -H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
40.Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. -E. Stanley Jones
41.’Thank you’ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding. -Alice Walker
42.God does nothing except in response to believing prayer. -John Wesley
43.Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. -George Herbert
44.To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing. -Martin Luther
45.The serenity prayer, ‘God grant me the strength to accept…’ That’s a prayer that’s actually in my car. I say it every day. -Lauren London
46.I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you. -Roy Orbison
47.Basically, I’m for anything that gets you through the night – be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels. -Frank Sinatra
48.My longing for truth was a single prayer. -Edith Stein
49.Music is a form of prayer. -Toru Takemitsu
50.Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you’re listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time. -Kelsey Grammer
