The Power of Prayer

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.  ~Edwin Keith



Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.  ~Corrie ten Boom

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.  ~Indian Proverb


Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.~ Richard C. Trench

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing - nothing.  ~Saint Francis of Assisi

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of. ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Certain thoughts are prayers.  There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.  ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862

"Most men pray for power, the strength to do things. Few people pray for love, the quality to be someone." Robert Foster

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.  ~Frederick Douglass, escaped slave

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, but unoffered prayer.  ~F.B. Meyer  


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

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow. ~Benjamin Franklin

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

When a man is at his wits' end, it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.  ~Oswald Chambers


Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.  ~Author Unknown


When you pray, rather let your heart be without words than your words without heart.  ~John Bunyan


I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.  ~Abraham Lincoln

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.  ~Richard Sibbes

When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.  ~Morihei Ueshiba

To give thanks in solitude is enough.  Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go.  Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.  ~Victor Hugo

No Time to Pray

I got up early one morning and rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish, I didn't have time to pray.

Problems just tumbled about me and grew heavier with each task;
Why doesn't God help me, I wondered; He answered, "You didn't ask."

I wanted to see joy and beauty, but the day toiled on, gray and bleak;
I wondered why God didn't show me - He said, "But you didn't seek."

I tried to come into God's presence; I used all my keys at the lock;
God gently and lovingly chided, "My child, you didn't knock."

I woke up early this morning and paused before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish that I had to take time to pray.