GREAT PRAYER QUOTES - 8

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. - Soren Kierkegaard

Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance. - Margaret Mead

Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else. - Robert McAfee Brown

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 Ralph Inge

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. - Jacques Ellul

Prayer in private results in boldness in public. - Edwin Louis Cole

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand. - Hippocrates

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. - Mohandas Gandhi

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon. - Martin Luther

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. - Ernest Holmes

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. - E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance. - Victor Hugo

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. - Jonathan Edwards

Prayer is commission. Out of the quietness with God, power is generated that turns the spiritual machinery of the world. When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent, that the divine compulsion is upon you. - E. Stanley Jones

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment. - E. Stanley Jones