Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

Brief let me be. The fewer words the better prayer.

Martin Luther

Look to it that you do not try to do all of it, do not try to do too much, lest your spirit grow weary. Besides, a good prayer mustn't be too long. Do not draw it out. Prayer ought to be frequent and fervent.

Martin Luther

The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer.

Martin Luther

Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

Martin Luther

All who call on God in true faith...will certainly be heard.

Martin Luther

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

Martin Luther

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

Martin Luther

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Martin Luther

I've got so much work to do today, I'd better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.

Martin Luther

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

Martin Luther

If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

Martin Luther

To pray well is the better half of study.

Martin Luther

We cannot attain to the understanding of Scripture either by study or by the intellect. Your first duty is to begin by prayer. Entreat the Lord to grant you, of His great mercy, the true understanding of His Word. There is no other interpreter of the Word of God than the Author of this Word, as He Himself has said, "They shall be all taught of God" (John 6:45). Hope for nothing from your own labors, from your own understanding: trust solely in God, and in the influence of His Spirit. Believe this on the word of a man who has experience.

Martin Luther

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.

Martin Luther

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

Martin Luther

The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men.

Martin Luther

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

Martin Luther

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

Martin Luther

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

Martin Luther

No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes.

Nick Cave

A is for Answering all your prayers, N is for kNowing that your loverman's going to be the answer...

Nick Cave

be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down

Philip James Bailey

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Philip James Bailey

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Peyton Manning

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

Paulo Coelho

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

Megan McCafferty

Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said.

Terry Pratchett

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

Nik Wallenda

A lot of praying helped me a lot.

Nicolas Malebranche

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul,

Nick Vujicic

When we don't hear anything from God we just don't know exactly what He is planning and we come to different conclusions that maybe He has forgotten me, maybe He doesn't hear my prayers, maybe I'm not good enough.