Welcome to our collection of profound and inspiring praying quotes. Prayer, a timeless practice across cultures and religions, serves as a powerful tool for introspection, guidance, and connection with the divine. Whether seeking solace in times of distress, expressing gratitude for blessings received, or simply communing with a higher power, the act of prayer holds immense significance in the lives of many.
Within these pages, you’ll discover a treasury of quotes that illuminate the beauty and depth of the prayer experience. From the poignant words of spiritual leaders to the heartfelt reflections of philosophers and poets, each quote offers a glimpse into the profound impact of prayer on the human soul. Whether you’re embarking on a journey of spiritual exploration or simply seeking words of comfort and encouragement, we invite you to immerse yourself in the wisdom and insight contained within these pages.
Below, you’ll find a selection of quotes on the topic of prayer. Feel free to copy them, adorn them with stylish fonts, or place them upon images as you see fit, allowing these words to serve as a source of inspiration and reflection in your own life.
Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen – that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we’re still praying to their gods. Whitley Strieber
I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love. Tyler Perry
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was here and now, woven into this life. Lionel Blue
Why is it that when we talk to God we’re said to be praying but when God talks to us we’re schizophrenic? Lily Tomlin
The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem. Yasser Arafat
Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him. T. B. Joshua
A lot of praying helped me a lot. Nik Wallenda
I’m a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that no one’s listening. I think it’s just a habit of mindfulness. Geraldine Brooks
If you study the Talmud you please God even more than you do by praying or fasting. Abraham Cahan
It’s been a difficult thing because some great opportunities have come and I’ve just been holding my breath and praying… I’m basically gambling hoping something will come along this season and if not, I don’t know what the future holds. Charisma Carpenter
I never had any expectations of winning a Grammy. It wasn’t something I was set on, that I was hoping and praying and starving for. Beck
The only times I’m consistent about praying are when I’m on an airplane or when an ambulance goes by. China Chow
Well, of course it was a very trying time for me, and fortunately I had a lot of people who were supportive. A lot of people who were writing and calling and saying they were praying for me. Some people sent me Scripture, and that helped. Anita Hill
Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying. Mason Cooley
Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying. Charles Williams
It’s clearly more important to treat one’s fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one’s head to a prayer mat. Naguib Mahfouz
I’ve noticed that worrying is like praying for what you don’t want to happen. Robert Downey, Jr.
I spent every day just praying that I didn’t look like a big dork on camera. Lara Flynn Boyle
I just keep praying for Joan to get her power back. To resolve her problems and rise to the top. To fight back! Christina Hendricks
I’ve always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn’t a magic formula, but it’s an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more. Mark Batterson
I don’t spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free. Irina Shayk
My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son. Steve Harvey
As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market. Robert Kiyosaki
Are you living for the things you are praying for? Austin Phelps
The Indian race are waiting and praying. Chief Joseph
Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I’d be praying for it. Karen Kain
No praying, it spoils business. Thomas Otway
The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil! Francois Rabelais
I always start my New Year at church with my family. I see it as a fresh beginning – like a new chance we get to renew our lives, perhaps? Starting it by praying gives me a lot of hope for the future. Nivin Pauly
Those who submit like a child do it because they know that the Father wants only the happiness of His children and that only He knows the way. That is the testimony we must have to keep praying like a submissive child, in the good times as well as the times of trouble. Henry B. Eyring
Shooting a film is like a kismet quest. You have thirty days and you need magic to happen. So that’s why I wear suits. I’m praying to the gods, and I’m doing everything I can to respect the powers of the world. Mike Mills
Prayer’s important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it’s a way to refresh one’s own mind and motive. If you’re praying, you’re really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you. Mike Huckabee
‘You better do a lot of praying’ is good counsel for all of the Lord’s servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him. Henry B. Eyring
I’ve been praying that we might have a spiritual awakening. But I think that becomes possible as individuals surrender their lives fresh and anew to Christ. Billy Graham
I’m praying we don’t go to war with Iraq. If we do, I may have to go back to work earlier. Elizabeth Vargas
I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day. Ishmael Beah
When Queer Eye hit, the church told my mom they were praying for me. She said, God loves him too. And I support him 100 percent. Jai Rodriguez
I have not placed reading before praying because I regard it more important, but because, in order to pray aright, we must understand what we are praying for. Angelina Grimke
I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world. Jada Pinkett Smith
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. E. Stanley Jones
In the Lord’s Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation. Kevin DeYoung
Praying is like a rocking chair – it’ll give you something to do, but it won’t get you anywhere. Gypsy Rose Lee
When I’m sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs. Ernest Gaines
I’ve come to realize I’m more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I’m more about looking inside for inner guidance – tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources – which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside. Karen Salmansohn
The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil everywhere. Edward McKendree Bounds
Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. Ernest Holmes
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. Samuel Rutherford
Praying can make a difference, and it is up to all of us to try that, with faith, and see if it will not support these admirable troops, their spouses, and their families. Michael Enzi
The Savior is the perfect example of praying for others with real intent. In His great Intercessory Prayer uttered on the night before His Crucifixion, Jesus prayed for His Apostles and all of the Saints. David A. Bednar
I don’t believe in praying to win. John Wooden
My family is a praying family, a Christian family. Magic Johnson
I think praying is very important. I’m not going to say that I’m very religious and I don’t go to church as much as I should probably, but I definitely pray more than the average person. I’m a man of the Lord. Jadakiss
The whole house came up and I came up with it… I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me. Willie Nelson
Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. Donald Cargill
I was born Jewish, and I consider that my religion. But I’ve studied all religions, and as you learn more, you really learn that everyone’s praying to the same God. Goldie Hawn
Let a man be but in earnest in praying against a temptation as the tempter is in pressing it, and he needs not proceed by a surer measure. Robert South
I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished. Haruki Murakami
The Soviet Union collapsed without a lot of people thinking it should or would, whereas for Estonia, it was something we’d been praying for for 60 years. Toomas Hendrik Ilves
In the years when HIV was a killer, any parent of an openly gay person was terrified. I knew my mother well enough that she would spend every day praying that I didn’t come across that virus. She’d have worried like that. George Michael
You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you’re meditating or you’re praying or whatever. And there’s not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra. M.I.A.
No matter what – rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing – the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do. Mick Fleetwood
Sharia is, for me, a personal basic set of guidelines that Muslims follow. It’s about being respectful to elders. It’s about praying five times a day. It’s about etiquette that I have with members of my family. It’s about inheritance, and it’s about how we get married. Just the kind of basic things that anyone engages in in life. Linda Sarsour
I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from. Paul Feig
I thank Him every chance I get – on my knees praying. Magic Johnson
During my days of deepest grief, in all of my shock, sorrow and struggle, I sat at the feet of God. I literally spent hours each day reading God’s word, meditating on scripture and praying. I intentionally spent a significant amount of time being still before God. Rick Warren
I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too. Ty Dolla Sign
I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard. Maya Angelou
Ordinary Catholics are praying when they do not think they are. They are praying when they offer implicitly all they are doing to God. Vincent McNabb
First and foremost, praying about things and having the good Lord as a part of my life is a huge grounding thing for me. Ashton Shepherd
Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others. Georg Solti
The resistance to praying is like the resistance of tightly clenched fists. This image shows a tension, a desire to cling tightly to yourself, a greediness which betrays fear. Henri Nouwen
This disease, called COVID 19, will be over much sooner than you think. Christian people all over this country, praying, have overwhelmed it. Kenneth Copeland
As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do. Charles R. Swindoll
In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it. Marlo Thomas
I want to talk about God in a literary way. But I think I would have a very hard time praying to God. Jonathan Safran Foer
The ancient Greek oral poets all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the Muse to help them remember. David Antin
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. William Gurnall
I’m praying for ‘Ice Age’ 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the ’60s, and I’m talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That’s what I’m praying for, because then I wouldn’t have to do anything else. Denis Leary
There are thousands of ragas, and they are all connected with different times of the day, like sunrise or night or sunset. It is all based on 72 of what we call ‘mela’ or scales. And we have principally nine moods, ranging from peacefulness to praying, or the feeling of emptiness you get by sitting by the ocean. Ravi Shankar
I do destroy men on a weekly basis. It’s like a hobby. I’m like a praying mantis. Kesha
Sometimes we pray in our heads and we never get a real opportunity to solidify what it is that we’re praying for or what we’re praying about. So once you write it down, it’s like a flow. It comes out and you solidify the thought or the idea or the request. Iyanla Vanzant
The scriptures record remarkable accounts of men whose lives changed dramatically, in an instant, as it were: Alma the Younger, Paul on the road to Damascus, Enos praying far into the night, King Lamoni. Ezra Taft Benson
Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good. Thomas a Kempis
We can never make ourselves better by trying… praying more or longer, studying more of the Word, performing good works, etc. Don’t get me wrong… it’s not bad to do any of these things. In fact, it’s good. It’s just that doing them in God’s power is the only way those things will have any real and lasting effect in our lives. Joyce Meyer
As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. ‘Pears like I didn’t do nothing but pray for ole master. ‘Oh, Lord, convert ole master;’ ‘Oh, dear Lord, change dat man’s heart, and make him a Christian.’ Harriet Tubman
Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist. Damian Lewis
If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another. Epicurus
She died praying that she might die. Mary Boykin Chesnut
I’ve had a Hindu upbringing. There’s a lot about it I think is cool. Temples are amazing. It’s a nice vibe when people are praying. And there’s lots about it where I understand why they believe those things. But I’m not practising. Romesh Ranganathan
Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, ‘All who seek, find.’ Peter Kreeft
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. Dennis Rodman
As a comedy writer, I’m always praying for the day I can tell a self-aware/break-the-fourth-wall style of joke. Nicholas Stoller
I had to tell Dad, ‘It will be okay and be positive; keep praying and have faith’. I have always known about cancer, but to be around someone who has it and to see what it does in such a short space of time was hard. It makes you think about your life, about what is important. Jermain Defoe
I’m not sure if President Obama is an ideologue or a pragmatist. I am hoping and praying he’s a pragmatist. Rudy Giuliani
I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn’t be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind. Mos Def
Well, you know what, I’m 60 years old, and I’ve been interested in politics since I was on my daddy’s knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics. Roger Ebert
In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly. Jack Dee
If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. Thomas Szasz
Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. Peace Pilgrim
I’m sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don’t think there’s any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock. Howard Stern