56 Prayer quotes to leave you feeling uplifted.

To capture the power of prayer, quotes like these by history’s greats provide a wealth of insight.

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Choose the perfect inspirational prayer quotes for any occasion.

Prayer is an instrumental part of nearly every documented faith. It can be heard in the form of blessings, litanies, free prayer, formula prayer, and more. Some people pray at specific times according to centuries-old traditions, and others pray when the need for peace or guidance overcomes them.

Prayer quotes are also useful because they remind us of the power of prayer. They give us pause to look at our motives for prayer, too, not to mention our expectations from it.

Reinvigorating your prayer practices can be as easy as picking one of these prayer quotes. Which ones resonate with you? History’s leaders, disciples, poets, and even scientists have left a legacy of prayer quotes to choose from. Share them in cards or letters to loved ones, flyers or banners for community events, or collages or posters for personal inspiration. It’s all easy in Adobe Express — no experience required.

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Table of Contents:

Morning Prayer Quotes

Good Night Prayer Quotes

Inspirational Prayer Quotes

Healing Prayer Quotes

Family Prayer Quotes

Faith Prayer Quotes

Short Prayer Quotes

Morning prayer quotes to start each day with recognition.

Positive prayer quotes can start the day with a needed moment of gratitude. Some religions have the tradition of morning prayer, and others practice it by choice because of how it shapes the day.

Starting each morning with prayer might be a routine worth exploring if you don’t already do it. The simple fact that you woke up today is something worth showing thanks for.

Choose the best morning prayer quotes for you, then imagine what they could do if you keep them front-and-center. A poster or personal photo collage could provide daily inspiration that spurs prayer, reflection, and an improved mood.

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True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency. Make it a habit, and when the need arises you will be in practice.”
Billy Graham
God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.”

Mother Teresa

Prayer is an ancient ritual nearly universal across faiths, but how it’s practiced varies. Have you tried prayer with silent meditation, for example? It might offer some surprising clarity.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”

St. Augustine

Morning prayer quotes can double as back to school prayer quotes, too. Really, they can be used any time you’re about to start something new. At the precipice of any beginning, prayer can help you put your best foot forward.

The prayer offered to God in the morning during your quiet time is the key that unlocks the door of the day. Any athlete knows that it is the start that ensures a good finish.”
Adrian Rogers
It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without heart.”
Mahatma Gandhi
I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer.”

Martin Luther

It’s said that preparing properly for something makes us more efficient, even though it takes extra time at the start. Consider prayer your preparation for the day.

The reality is, my prayers don't change God. But, I am convinced prayer changes me. Praying boldly boots me out of that stale place of religious habit into authentic connection with God Himself.”
Lysa TerKeurst
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.”

Henry Ward Beecher

Whatever you pray for in the morning, is that what you’re living the rest of the day?

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Good night prayer quotes to sleep soundly.

Frank Sinatra was once quoted saying, “basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night. Be it prayer, tranquilizers, or a bottle of Jack Daniels.”

All jokes aside, what does that mean about nightly prayer if it can be compared with taking tranquilizers or downing a bottle of whisky? Prayer relaxes us and frames our final thoughts for the day in a way that’s conducive for very sound sleep.

Pick your favorite good night prayer quotes to remember the power of prayer at bedtime. Some of these fit easily into graphics you could share on social media or in a text message as a way to say, “sleep tight.”

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Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.”
George Herbert
Any concern too small to be turned into prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
Corrie Ten Bloom
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “thank you” that would suffice.”

Meister Eckhart

Does prayer, for you, generally look backwards in thanks, or look forward to coming days with hope?

Give me faith, Lord, and let me help others find it.”

Leo Tolstoy

Some prayer quotes double as powerful prayers, themselves.

Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”
Teilhard de Chardin
Prayer should not be regarded as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.”

E.M. Bounds

What “new beauty” could nightly prayer uncover in your daily life? Use this quote in a poster for the bedroom to enjoy each day’s beauty before you lay down to rest.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness.”
Mahatma Gandhi
If your day is hemmed in with prayer, it is less likely to come unraveled.”

Cynthia Lewis

Use this metaphor as a reminder to practice prayer both morning and night.

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Inspirational prayer quotes to connect more deeply.

Inspirational prayer quotes are useful in banners, posters, and flyers to remind us of the power of prayer. Quotes like these can also inspire new kinds of prayer, or a new perspective on what you think you’re praying for.

With these inspirational prayer quotes, you can connect more deeply with others and with your own “why,” whether gratitude, humility, or hope.

Choose your favorite quotes and imagine what they could do, for you and for others you care about. Use one in a card to a friend, and another in a letter to a sibling. A photo collage could use a quote with images a loved one finds comforting. Who knows? The right quote could spur something miraculous — right when someone needs it.

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Prayer is how we press our hands into the invisible and find the hand of Christ reaching back.”
James K. A. Smith
Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.”

Max Lucado

Power of prayer quotes capture the importance of practicing prayer, and also the power of whoever hears it.

Prayer is not an old woman's amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is a surge of the heart, it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.”

St. Therese of Lisieux

How often do your prayers embrace the bad along with the good?

The whole reason why we pray is to be united into the vision and contemplation of God to whom we pray.”

Julian of Norwich

Prayer is sometimes a community act. This quote could go on a poster or flyer for a service or prayer event.

A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
And so I urge you: carry on an ongoing conversation with God about the daily stuff of life, a little like Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof. For now, do not worry about “proper” praying, just talk to God.”
Richard J. Foster
Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts.”

Mother Teresa

Inspirational prayer quotes help us audit our focus in prayer. Use this quote in a photo collage with images of what you tend to pray for. What do you notice?

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Healing prayer quotes to change worry for peace.

When you or someone you love is sick or suffering, prayer is a powerful tool. It helps you put your fears into words, and then it assuages those fears. You ask for the best outcome while showing gratitude for what you can.

It might be emotional or physical healing you’re asking for. Whatever the case, these handpicked healing prayer quotes can provide much-needed relief. Whether your prayer is answered exactly the way you’d hoped or in some unexpected way, the moment of prayer itself often comes with a feeling of peace.

These quotes a perfect for cards or letters for those dear to you who need healing power. Choose the ones that resonate, then make your personalized cards in Adobe Express. It’s easy, no experience required.

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Prayer is the song of the heart. It reaches the ear of God even if it is mingled with the cry and tumult of a thousand men.”
Kahlil Gibran
There are parts of our calling, works of the Holy Spirit, and defeats of the darkness that will come no other way than through furious, fervent, faith-filled, unceasing prayer.”

Beth Moore

Healing prayer also empowers you in moments of fear and doubt. When you or anyone you care about is unwell, then “furious, fervent, faith-filled, unceasing prayer” is sometimes the only route to peace.

When one is flourishing spiritually, prayer is different from when one is oppressed by the extent of one's struggles.”
John Cassian
The value of persistent prayer is not that God will hear us, but that we will finally hear God.”

William McGill

Prayer often gives you clarity to act, not to be acted upon.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, “O God, forgive me,” or “Help me.””

Billy Graham

When healing is needed, prayer is highly emotional. The act itself becomes one of emotional healing.

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.”

St. John Vianney

There are medicinal baths with salt, and others with ice. Perhaps, though, the bath some people need to heal is one of prayer. Use this quote in a card to wish someone well.

There is variation in our prayer because we look toward God from different vantage points. Our situation changes; we develop and are subjected to a range of external factors. Our situation can also change because we deliberately choose to seek further into the mystery of God.”
Michael Casey
The power of prayer doesn’t come from the words we say, but from the One who hears them.”
Annie VanderHeiden
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Family prayer quotes that represent togetherness.

Daily prayer is often a personal, private act, but in religious services or at events with loved ones — especially at the holidays — it becomes an statement of togetherness.

Family prayer quotes cover the gamut from litanies and blessings to formula prayers that everyone stands and recites together. Familiar prayers can be as comforting as the company of the people you share them with. In short, prayer quotes for family capture that feeling of intimacy.

Choose your favorite quotes to use in banners or posters for the next holiday meal, or on flyers for an upcoming service.

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Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of Containing God's gift of himself.”

Mother Theresa

This short quote fits perfectly onto a banner to set the scene for a family reunion. Just like prayer, family, too, helps the heart grow larger.

She (my mother) became a warrior far superior to any epic hero. She became a giant on her knees. With a sword in one hand she battled the enemies of death and disease, and with her other hand stretched toward heaven she kept beseeching God’s help and His mercy.”
Bishop T.D. Jakes
Prayer is not only asking, but an attitude of mind which produces the atmosphere in which asking is perfectly natural.”

Oswald Chambers

The environment this prayer quote describes is one that the whole family can benefit from. As much as asking for something in prayer engenders comfort, we can also ask those we’re closest to.

My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.”
John 17:15
If we would turn the time we spent discussing the other's life into prayer time instead, no telling what would happen to the glory of God.”
Beth Moore
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.”

1 John 5:14

If we ask (or pray) together, our voice becomes louder, too.

Prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.”

Teresa of Avila

Love prayer quotes are for more than family; they can also be for friendship.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.”
Gordon B. Hinckley
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Faith prayer quotes that bolster and celebrate belief.

Religion has many rules and traditions, but ultimately, it’s people’s faith that drives them to prayer.

Faith prayer quotes are most meaningful when shared at major religious holidays, because it’s faith that keeps us celebrating them. Shared prayer at these events is one of their defining qualities.

Peruse these faith prayer quotes and consider sharing your favorite ones. Flyers or posters for events, cards for the holidays, and social media posts are great ways to celebrate a shared belief.

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To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”

Martin Luther

The regular practice of prayer is a simple measure of faith.

Prayer is the raising of one's mind and heart to God or the requesting of good things from God.”
St. John Damascene
Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between his will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.”

Elisabeth Elliot

A quote like this one could go with other Easter prayer quotes. Amazing things do happen; the ascension of Jesus Christ at Easter is a celebrated example.

Whether we realize it or not, prayer is the encounter of God's thirst with ours. God thirsts that we may thirst for him.”
St. Augustine
...a vital and personal relationship with the living and true God. This relationship is prayer.”
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Prayer, then, is a matter of our participating in the life of Jesus Christ.”

Michael Casey

Prayer quotes sometimes contain calls to action, like this one: participate in the life of Jesus Christ. This message could be woven in with other Christmas prayer quotes to celebrate togetherness over the holidays.

True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that. It is a spiritual transaction with the creator of Heaven and Earth.”
Charles Spurgeon
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”

Abraham Lincoln

Faith is strongest when we don’t know what to do or even what to ask for. We put our fates into the hands of whomever we’re praying to.

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Short prayer quotes for memorable messages.

Short prayer quotes are easy to memorize, which makes them easy to work into regular prayers and blessings. In 63 characters or less, these handpicked quotes capture the wonder of prayer and everything it stands for.

What could some of these quotes look like in a card? Or how would they look in social media posts? Some of these short prayer quotes are so succinct that you can even fit them onto banners to hang at an event.

Choose your favorite short prayer quotes for every imaginable project. It’s all easy to make in Adobe Express — no experience required.

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Pray without ceasing.”

Thessalonians 5:17

How and where you use this affects the message it sends. In an Instagram story, for example, after a disaster event, it becomes a call of action to pray for those who were affected.

Pray as you can, not as you can't.”

Dom Chapman

How much humility is part of your regular prayer?

True intimacy with God always brings humility.”
Beth Moore
Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?”
Corrie Ten Boom
We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties.”
Oswald Chambers
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.”

Georges Bernanos

Faith prayer quotes can be short, too, like this one by French author George Bernanos.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

Satchel Paige

Consider the source of this quote: the first black pitcher to play in the American Baseball League. Paige faced so much adversity that his message really hits home.

Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”
Matthew 5:44
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Tips to put prayer quotes to use.

Prayer takes so many forms. It can be silent meditation, the singing of worship songs, writing in a prayer journal, or reciting familiar prayers at the dinner table.

Just like prayer is an opportunity to express oneself, one’s beliefs, and the traditions one comes from, how and where prayer quotes are used is another part of the message.

For example, consider:

Exercise: the daily prayer maker.

Prayer trackers provide devoted prayers or prayer quotes for each day of the week. You can make your own in a matter of minutes, and it can be completely personalized to your lifestyle, needs, and beliefs.

First, think of what words you associate with each day of the week. Is Monday when you feel like you’re “thrown into the fire?” Is Thursday the day of work meetings? Is Saturday the day you go out?

Think of two or three specific words you associate with each day. Then, look for prayer quotes that fit each word (and therefore each day) based on those associations.

Finally, write down your top:

Put all your favorite daily quotes onto a collage or a calendar (both of which are easy to make in Adobe Express), and put it up wherever you can see it every day.

Adobe Express can help.

Adobe Express has templates and customization tools to put your favorite prayer quotes to work. If you want to use prayer quotes in cards, letters, posters, banners, photo collages, flyers, social media posts, or other creative projects, Adobe Express makes it as simple as picking a template and personalizing it, or making your own idea with easy-to-use tools. Whatever message you want to transmit, Adobe Express brings it to life, no experience required.

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