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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 Riordan
February 28, 2017
“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
Tagged: prayer, God, Religion
“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
Tagged: prayer, worship, worries
“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
Tagged: prayer, Nature, Sky
“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
Tagged: prayer, God, Silence
“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
Tagged: prayer, Hope, worship
“Goodness is about what you do. Not who you pray to.”
— Terry Pratchett, Snuff
Tagged: prayer, Goodness, God
“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
Tagged: prayer, Education, Meaning
“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
Tagged: prayer, Love, Silence
“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)
Tagged: prayer, God, Sorrow
“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
Tagged: prayer, help, Church
“When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.”
— Karl Rahner, The Need and the Blessing of Prayer
Tagged: prayer, God, Love
“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?
Tagged: prayer, God, Distance
“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
Tagged: prayer, Silence, Blessings
“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
Tagged: prayer, Universe, Opinions
“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
Tagged: prayer, wishes, Universe
“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
Tagged: prayer, God, divine
“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)
Tagged: prayer, Keep Moving, surviving
“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
Tagged: prayer, Desire, Needs
“I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer.”
— Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
Tagged: prayer, God, Believer
“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
Tagged: prayer, strength, Changes
“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
Tagged: prayer, Changes, Love, Acceptance
“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
Tagged: prayer, Love, Changes
“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
Tagged: prayer, Sin, sinning
“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
Tagged: prayer, God, Silence
“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
Tagged: prayer, Truth, sacred
“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
Tagged: prayer, God, help
“Love is the only prayer I know.”
— Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
Tagged: prayer, Love, Praying
“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
Tagged: prayer, Requests, Songs
“Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.”
— Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays
Tagged: prayer, Saved, Praying
“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
Tagged: prayer, Conversation, talking