“It is not the body’s posture, but the heart’s attitude that counts when we pray.” ~ Billy Graham

“You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.” ~ Thomas Keating, Open Mind, Open Heart

“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.” ~ Corrie ten Boom, Peace of Mind

“No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.” ~ Billy Graham

“I do not pray for success. I ask for faithfulness.” ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.” ~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.” ~ David J. Wolpe

“Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand.” ~ Duke Ellington

“Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods.” ~ Homer

“Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire, uttered or unexpressed; the motion of a hidden fire that trembles in the breast.” ~ James Montgomery

“When you cannot pray as you would, pray as you can.” ~ Dean M. Goulburn

“Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.” ~ St. Francis of Assisi

“Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call ‘meditation’ or, in Christian terms, ‘contemplative prayer.’ It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.” ~ Sara Maitland, A Book of Silence

“Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.” ~ Patricia Hampl, Prayer Does It Make a Difference