Quotes About Prayers I

By peace | July 26, 2007

Prayer is conversation with God. ~ St. Clement of Alexandria

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

Prayer is the language of the heart. ~ Grace Aguilar

Prayer is the natural language of love. ~ Joan Brown Campbell

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us. ~ Georgia Harkness

Prayer is an exercise of the spirit, as thought of the mind. ~ Mary F. Smith

Prayer is a principal means for opening oneself to the power and love of God that is already there — in the depths of reality. ~ James A. Pike

Prayer is the sum of our relationship with God. We are what we pray. The degree of our faith is the degree of our prayer. Our ability to love is our ability to pray. ~ Carlo Carretto

Prayer has the power to generate insight; it often endows us with an understanding not attainable by speculation. Some of our deepest insights, decisions and attitudes are born in moments of prayer. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. ~ Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy. ~ Alexis Carrel

Prayer begins where human capacity ends. ~ Marian Anderson

Prayer begins where expression ends… words can only open the door, and we can only weep on the threshold of our incommunicable thirst after the incomprehensible. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

We don’t have all the answers. Perhaps prayer is simply a time we set aside to acknowledge that reality. ~ Mary E. Hunt

The purpose of prayers is not the same as the purpose of speech. The purpose of speech is to inform; the purpose of prayer is to partake. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives… Prayer must be personal, embedded in the ground of one’s own being as a person meeting God. ~ Malcolm Boyd