Prayers Quotes

Prayers Quotes & Sayings

These prayers quotes and prayers sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard. - C. S. Lewis


It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray. - Aesop [Aisopos]


Beware, my lord! Beware lest stern Heaven hate you enough to hear your prayers! - Anatole France


When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde


Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled; Mahomet called the hill to come to him, again and again, and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill. - Sir Francis Bacon


There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. - Saint Teresa of Avila


As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect. - Ralph Waldo Emerson


But strong of limb And swift of foot misfortune is, and, far Outstripping all, comes to every land, And there wreaks evil on mankind, which prayers Do afterwards redress. - Homer [Homeros]


Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers. - Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro]


It is vain to expect our prayers to be heard if we do not strive as well as pray. - Aesop [Aisopos]


A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers. - Epictetus


I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered. - Jean Ingelow