Labor, you know, is prayer. [ Bayard Taylor ]
Prayer ardent opens heaven. [ Young ]
Making their lives a prayer. [ Whittier ]
Prayer is the voice of faith. [ Horne ]
Music is the child of prayer. [ Melancthon ]
He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all. [ Coleridge ]
The fewer words, the better prayer. [ Luther ]
Her eyes are homes of silent prayer. [ Tennyson ]
Our prayers are the shadows of mercy. [ Spurgeon ]
Oh, happy vantage of a kneeling knee! [ William Shakespeare ]
Every wish Is like a prayer with God. [ Mrs. Browning ]
The few that pray at all pray oft amiss. [ Cowper ]
Prayer flies where the eagle never flew. [ Thomas Guthrie ]
Solicitude is the audience-chamber of God. [ Walter Savage Landor ]
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done. [ William Shakespeare ]
A good prayer is master of another's purse. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below,
Words, without thoughts, never to heaven go. [ William Shakespeare ]
God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers. [ Quarles ]
Prayer moves the hand which moves the world. [ J. A. Wallace ]
In prayer the lips never act the winning part
Without the sweet concurrence of the heart. [ Herrick ]
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth. [ Bailey ]
Prayer purifies: it is a self-preached sermon. [ Richter ]
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea. [ Herbert ]
The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers.
From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw.
Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
Now a sermon and now a prayer. [ Longfellow ]
Battering the gates of heaven with storms of prayer. [ Alfred Tennyson ]
Children are the keys of Paradise;
They alone are good and wise,
Because their thoughts, their very lives, are prayer. [ R. H. Stoddard ]
A short prayer may reach up to the Heaven of Heavens. [ Proverb ]
My sole resources in the path I trod,
Were these - my bark - my sword - my love — my God.
The last I left in youth - He leaves me now -
And man but works His will to lay me low.
I have no thought to mock His throne with prayer,
Wrung from the coward crouching of despair;
It is enough - I breathe - and I can bear. [ Byron ]
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. [ Emerson ]
How can He grant you what you do not desire to receive? [ St. Augustine ]
Music is the child of prayer, the companion of religion. [ Chateaubriand ]
Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God. [ Hermes ]
Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [ Juvenal ]
Let me say amen betimes, lest the devil cross my prayers. [ William Shakespeare ]
Solitude is the home of the strong; silence, their prayer. [ Ravignan ]
The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer. [ Martin Luther ]
More things are wrought by prayer than the world dreams of. [ Tennyson ]
Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations. [ Bernard ]
Prayer should be the key of the day, and the lock of the night. [ Proverb ]
He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Human life is a constant want, and ought to be a constant prayer. [ S. Osgood ]
A single grateful thought towards heaven is the most perfect prayer. [ Lessing ]
A single grateful thought towards fiea%-en is the most perfect prayer. [ Lessing ]
The saints will aid if men will call: For the blue sky bends over all. [ Coleridge ]
A single grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer. [ Lessing ]
Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. [ William Shakespeare ]
Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer, their pure breath sanctifies the air. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]
His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than words, was simply doing good. [ Whittier ]
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray! [ Joseph Roux ]
Prayer is, the breath of a new-born soul, and there can be no Christian life without it. [ Rowland Hill ]
Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. [ Melanchthon ]
We do pray for mercy; and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Prayer is the dew of the soul ravaged by adversity, and oftentimes the only bread of the poor. [ A. Poincelot ]
The prayer of Lahire: God! do unto Lahire what thou wouldst Lahire should do unto Thee, if Thou were Lahire, and if Lahire were Thee!
To be accurate, write; to remember, write; to know thine own mind, write. And a written prayer is a prayer of faith, special, sure, and to be answered. [ Tupper ]
We must not sit down, and look for miracles. Up, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. [ John Eliot ]
Those eyes, soft and capricious as a cloudless sky, whose azure depth their color emulates, must needs be conversant with upward looks - prayer's voiceless service. [ Wordsworth ]
Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer; and he who most bears in mind what has been done for him by God will be most emboldened to supplicate fresh gifts from above. [ Henry Melvill ]
Woman has a smile for every joy, a tear for every sorrow, a consolation for every grief, an excuse for every fault, a prayer for every misfortune, and encouragement for every hope. [ Sainte-Foix ]
Many favors which God giveth us, ravel out for want of hemming, through our own unthankfulness, for through prayer purchaseth blessings, giving praise doth keep the quiet possession of them. [ Thomas Fuller ]
For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit. [ William Mountford ]
I think half the troubles for which men go slouching in prayer to God are caused by their intolerable pride. Many of our cares are but a morbid way of looking at our privileges. We let our blessings get mouldy, and then call them curses. [ Beecher ]
Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise! [ Anne Isabella Thackeray ]