Prayer Quotes

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

Saint Augustine

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

Jean Ingelow

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Phillips Brooks

I believe that God prays in us and through us, whether we are praying or not and whether we believe in God or not. So, any prayer on my part is a conscious response to what God is already doing in my life.

Malcolm Boyd

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

Saint Jerome