50 Spiritual Quotes That Will Remind You To Pray Today

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50 Spiritual Quotes That Will Remind You To Pray Today

I don't pray because it makes sense to pray. I pray because my life doesn't make sense without prayer.

Holly RiordanFebruary 28, 2017

Don't forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Quality Paperback Edition

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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, The Purpose of Christmas

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Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

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If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural sensibilities. But the simple rule for prayer is this: Begin praying and your taste for prayer will increase. The more you pray, the more you will acquire the desire for prayer, the energy for prayer, and the sense of purpose in prayer.

— Leslie Ludy, Wrestling Prayer: A Passionate Communion with God

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The purpose of prayer is that we get ahold of God, not of the answer.

— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: Quality Paperback Edition

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Prayer not only teaches and strengthens one for work, work teaches and strengthens one for prayer.

— Andrew Murray, With Christ In The School Of Prayer

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Prayer is asking God to incarnate, to get dirty in your life. Yes, the eternal God scrubs floors. For sure we know he washes feet. So take Jesus at his word. Ask him. Tell him what you want. Get dirty. Write out your prayer requests; don't mindlessly drift through life on the American narcotic of busyness. If you try to seize the day, the day will eventually break you. Seize the corner of his garment and don't let go until he blesses you. He will reshape the day.

— Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World

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We must never forget to pray, and to ask God to remember us when He is arranging things, so that we too may feel safe and have no anxiety about what is going to happen.

— Johanna Spyri, Heidi

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What have you gained since you haven't prayed? What will you lose if you pray?

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option

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Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

— Philip Yancey, Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?

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It has been said by many great Christians that prayer is our secret weapon. If we desire to be free from every enemy stronghold over our lives and fully fortified to live the superhuman existences God intended us to live, then we must learn how to pray.

— Leslie Ludy, The Set-Apart Woman: God's Invitation to Sacred Living

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It is of great significance if there is a person who truly prays in a family. Prayer attracts God's Grace and all the members of the family feel it, even those whose hearts have grown cold. Pray always.

— Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

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Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

— R.C. Sproul, The Prayer of the Lord

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Nothing but prayer can make saints because nothing but God can make saints, and we meet God in prayer. Prayer is the hospital for souls where we meet Doctor God.

— Peter Kreeft, Prayer For Beginners

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I don't pray because it makes sense to pray. I pray because my life doesn't make sense without prayer.

— Noah Benshea, Jacob the Baker: Gentle Wisdom for a Complicated World

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If the Devil says you cannot pray when you are angry, tell him it is none of his business, and pray until that species of insanity is dispelled and serenity is restored to the mind.

— Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses by Brigham Young... His Counselors... and others... Reported by G. D. Watt [27 Volume Hardcover Set]

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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.

— Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?

— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)

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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

— Wally Lamb, She's Come Undone (Oprah's Book Club)

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Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come.

— Janice Hanna, Love Finds You In Daisy, Oklahoma

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Prayer is based on the remote possibility that someone is actually listening; but so is a lot of conversation. If the former seems far-fetched, consider the latter: even if someone is listening to your story, and really hearing, that person will disappear from existence in the blink of a cosmic eye, so why bother to tell this perhaps illusory and possibly un-listening person something he or she is unlikely to truly understand, just before the two of you blip back out of existence? We like to talk to people who answer us, intelligently if possible, but we do talk without needing response or expecting comprehension. Sometimes, the event is the word, the act of speaking. Once we pull that apart a bit, the action of talking becomes more important than the question of whether the talking is working--because we know, going in, that the talking is not working. That said, one might as well pray.

— Jennifer Michael Hecht, Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson

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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays

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Love is the only prayer I know.

— Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon

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But the very fact that this world is so challenging is exactly why you sometimes must reach out of its jurisdiction for help, appealing to a higher authority in order to find your comfort.

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.

— Sue Monk Kidd, Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

— Frederick Buechner, Godric: A Novel

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Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

— J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer

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Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life... it’ll change yours.

— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman

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That's the way prayer goes. It's like electricity, it keeps things going.

— Kathryn Stockett, The Help

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Not being changed by prayer is sort of life standing in the middle of a spring rain without getting wet. It's hard to stand in the center of God's acceptance and love without getting it all over you.

— Steve Brown, Approaching God: Accepting the Invitation to Stand in the Presence of God

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I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer.

— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

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Prayer is the soul's sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.

— Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind

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Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

— Lois McMaster Bujold, The Curse of Chalion (Chalion series)

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Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal-and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

— Eben Alexander, Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife

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The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home

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Where did you get the idea you aren't allowed to petition the universe with prayer? You are part of this universe, Liz. You're a constituent--you have every entitlement to participate in the actions of the universe, and to let your feelings be known. So, put your opinion out there. Make your case. Believe me--it will at least be taken into consideration.

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

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The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.

— Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World

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I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.

— Ravi Zacharias, Has Christianity Failed You?

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When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

— Karl Rahner, The Need and the Blessing of Prayer

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Help is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.

— Anne Lamott, Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

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For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo (Penguin Classics)

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The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.

— Amit Ray, OM Chanting and Meditation

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Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue

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Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.

— Terry Pratchett, Snuff

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When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal.

— Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

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In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

— Mother Teresa, In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories and Prayers

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Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

— L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

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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, Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

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Self-will and prayer are both ways of getting things done. At the center of self-will is me, carving a world in my image, but at the center of prayer is God, carving me in his Son's image.

— Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World

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