P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Prayer is the thermometer of grace.”
Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37
“Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.”
“Prayer is the very life-breath of true Christianity.”
Source: Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke
“Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.”
Source: The Message of the Sermon on the Mount
“Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.”
“Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of the blessings of His goodness to His people.”
Source: Sovereignty of God
“Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.”
Source: Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart
“Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny.”
“Prayer is the way to die to our own wishes and surrender everything to God.”
“Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well, that our bad things will turn out for good, our good things cannot be taken from us, and the best things are yet to come.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“Prayer is the way to experience a powerful confidence that God is handling our lives well.”
Source: Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God
“Prayer is the way to find power in God for pulling down strongholds.”
“Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God.”
“Prayer is the wildly liberating acknowledgement that I am not doomed to the smallness that denying God would sentence me to.”
“Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.”
Source: Max on Life: Discovering the Power of Prayer: Discovering the Power of Prayer
“Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.”
“Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.”
“Prayer is the work behind the work.”
“Prayer is the world's most sophisticated telephone, you can dial God anywhere, anytime.”
“Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.”
“Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.”
“Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected.”
Source: Effective Prayer
“Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.”
Source: The Jesus I Never Knew
“Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.”
Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons
“Prayer is to vibrate, do the devotion, whatever it is, to whoever you believe in, Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any of them. You get the response depending on how much you need it.”
“Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.”
Source: Beautiful Losers
“Prayer is usually a desperate attempt to wish something into or out of reality.”
“Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering." Book: Seeking Peace: Chronicles of the Worst Buddist in the World”
“Prayer is vastly superior to worry. With worry, we are helpless; with prayer, we are interceding. When I hear sad news, I try to say a prayer for the victims. When I am troubled, I will say a prayer that asks for relief for myself and for all those who suffer as I do. When I am concerned about my relatives or friends I say a short prayer to myself - "May they be happy and free of suffering."”
“Prayer is when you embark on a journey to reach out to the Most High with your questions and wait for Him to answer in His time.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“Prayer is when you send your requests to God, knowing that by faith He will process them in His time.”
Source: Prayer: An Antidote for the Inner Man
“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.”
“prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.”
“Prayer is where I acknowledge a battle that I can’t win by embracing a God Who can’t lose.”
“Prayer is where I trade the rhetoric of men the for the promises of God. It is where I petition perfection instead of count on those who someone survived an election. It is to accept the incomprehensible invitation of God to have this weak voice of mine thunder down the halls of heaven and roll up to the throne of the God of all eternity so that as small as I am, I might have an audience with this “King of kings.” It is where my fatigue becomes a stage upon which God can unveil His strength in stunning fashion, and where my fear is obliterated by His courage. Prayer is where I rise above this tangled world and find myself enveloped by a world that I visit today, but will live in tomorrow. Prayer is utterly indispensable to this cringing existence, for unless I rise above it I will be consumed by the darkness of it. Prayer is this and does this and will always be this.”
“Prayer is where the action is.”
“Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.”
Source: Unleashing the Power of Scripture: A Guide for Catholics
“Prayer is work. The experiences of many children of God demonstrate that it accomplishes far more than does any other form of work. It is also warfare, for it is one of the weapons in fighting the enemy. However, only prayer in the spirit is genuinely effectual.”
“Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.”
“Prayer is your personal key to heaven.”
Source: The shield of faith
“Prayer is your way, often the only way, to water the harvest. By prayer you can bring the Holy Spirit's blessing on any gospel effort anywhere in the world.”
Source: Touch the World Through Prayer
“Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.”
“Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.”
“Prayer is, paradoxically, both a gift and a conquest, a grace and a duty. Does that not mean, is it not a special case of the truth, that all duty is a gift, every call on us a blessing, and that the task we often find a burden is really a boon?”
Source: The Soul of Prayer
“Prayer isn't an excuse to sin.”
Source: Too Hard to Forget
“Prayer isn't limited to a slot in our schedule. It's living in the Lord's presence and being open to Him.”
“Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.”
“Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first means by which we come to know the Lord’s will for our lives. To the extent that we teach young people to pray, and to pray well, we will be cooperating with God’s call. Programs, plans and projects have their place; but the discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God’s call.”
Source: Pope Benedict in America: The Full Texts of Papal Talks Given During His Apostolic Visit to the United States
“Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.”
Source: An Invitation to Joy
“Prayer keeps me centered.”