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People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker. -- Mary Hunter Austin
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. -- Armstrong Williams
I've taught a lot about prayer over the years and how it is really just talking to God. -- Joyce Meyer
Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself. -- Mark Batterson
Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that? -- Dennis Quaid
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. -- Will Rogers
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. -- Geraldine Brooks
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. -- Victor Hugo
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! -- Philip Yancey
I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about. -- Iyanla Vanzant
The most common phrase bandied about these days is 'Oh my God'. People say it automatically all the time - not realising that that's a form of prayer. -- Steven Patrick Morrissey
Our hearts and prayers go out to the people in London and in Egypt. We're very concerned about it. We are providing our expertise to aid in the investigation in London. -- Alberto Gonzales
It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I grew up a Catholic and I don't want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but there's a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. -- Bernhard Langer
My mom is very structured. She gets up, she does her prayers, and she eats her oatmeal with blueberries and Greek yogurt, and she has her prayer list, and she doesn't worry too much about things. -- Maria Bamford
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. -- Simon Newcomb
Rather than set aside daily time for prayer, I pray constantly and spontaneously about everything I encounter on a daily basis. When someone shares something with me, I'll often simply say, 'let's pray about this right now.' -- Thomas Kinkade
This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered. -- Bill Rancic
Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me. -- Mike Huckabee
One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change. -- Thomas Keating
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together. -- Dallas Willard
History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer. -- J. Edwin Orr
If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline. -- Bill Hybels
Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves. -- David Wolpe
Prayer is not about changing God, but being willing to let God change us. -- Richard Rohr
Prayer is essentially about making the heart strong so that fear cannot penetrate there. -- Matthew Fox
May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness. -- Pope Francis
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.- -- Brennan Manning
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for. -- Nathan East
Satan does not care how many people read about prayer if only he can keep them from praying. -- Paul Billheimer
Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer. -- Martin Luther
If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer. -- Philip Yancey
If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it. -- Charles Spurgeon
Praying through is all about CONSISTENCY and INTENSITY. It's 'all-nighter' prayer. It just won't take 'NO' for an answer! -- Mark Batterson
You can do nothing without prayer and everything with it. Anything worth worrying about is something worth praying about. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest use of your words is prayer. Talk to God about EVERYTHING, all the time. Maintain a running conversation. -- Rick Warren
The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. -- Henri Nouwen
God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His. -- Louie Giglio
Best thing about Al Smith dinner: Cardinal Dolan got the candidates together for a brief prayer before going out on the stage. -- John I. Jenkins
Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray. -- Saint Francis de Sales
When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer. -- Origen
To pray rightly, you must make God your hope, stay, and all. Right prayer sees nothing substantial or worth being concerned about except God. -- John Bunyan
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? -- Jim Cymbala
Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe. -- Ole Hallesby
Prayer doesn't sound like a cool hot topic that would cause people to rush to the theatre, stand in line, and buy tickets about prayer. -- Stephen Kendrick
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude. -- F. F. Bruce
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! -- Philip Yancey
Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent. -- Leonard Ravenhill
When you are in the prayer room you forget about the outside world and fall into a Christian rock coma, and nothing else seems to matter. -- Roger Ross Williams
If, at the time when the mind is praying it is distracted by any extraneous thought or worry about anything, then this prayer is not called pure. -- Isaac of Nineveh
It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer â?? it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you. -- Brian Houston
I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk about, when I lie down and when I rise up. And the answers are always coming. -- George Muller
I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender. -- Raymond Moody
Show me a church or a Christian organization that emphasizes prayer, and I'll show you a ministry where people are excited about Jesus Christ and are witnessing for Him. -- Bill Bright
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about. -- Dallas Willard
A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God. -- Hubert Van Zeller

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