Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart. Mahatma Gandhi
God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. Richard J. Needham
“Give us this day our daily bread” is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. P.J. Wingate
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. Philip Melanchthen
Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. Satchel Paige, 1974
Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. Samuel M. Shoemaker
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. Austin O’Malley
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. Oswald Chambers
When a man is at his wits’ end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. Oswald Chambers
Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~B. Graham Dienert
The Lord’s Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. Frederick Denison Maurice
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. William Inge
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