50 Spiritual Quotes That Will Remind You To Pray Today

50 quotes

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

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Changes, Love, Acceptance

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

— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, God, Believer

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Desire, Needs

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Keep Moving, surviving

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, God, divine

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, wishes, Universe

“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. B…”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Universe, Opinions

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Silence, Blessings

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, God, Distance

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

— Karl Rahner, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, God, Love

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, help, Church

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, God, Sorrow

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Love, Silence

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Education, Meaning

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

— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Goodness, God

“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…”

— Mahatma Gandhi, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Hope, worship

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, God, Silence

“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…”

— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Nature, Sky

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, God, Religion

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: prayer, Self-Will, God