Quotes about prayer

Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

— Source Unknown

Do not make prayer a monologue -- make it a conversation.

— Source Unknown

Our thanks to God should always precede our requests.

— Source Unknown

Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

— Source Unknown

Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.

— Source Unknown

Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

— Source Unknown

My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it.

— Voltaire

I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

— Orson Welles

We turn to God for help when our foundations are shaking, only to learn that it is God who is shaking them.

— Charles C. West

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

— Oscar Wilde

Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.

— David J. Wolpe

Pray only with our kind heart while keeping either both hands folded or opened

— Anuj Somany

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

— Benjamin Franklin

Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.

— George Santayana

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

— Leonard Cohen