PRAYERS,
SHORT

Grace be with you.

The Bible, 2 Timothy 4.22

Let this day, O Lord, add some knowledge or good deed to yesterday.

Lancelot Andrewes

Lord, give me what you are requiring of me.

Augustine of Hippo

You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless until in you they find their rest.

Augustine of Hippo

O God, give me strength.

Gladys Aylward

Help me, O God, like Jesus to be growing all the time.

William Barclay

O God, keep me from being difficult to live with.

William Barclay

Protect me, dear Lord;

My boat is so small,

And your sea is so big.

Breton fisherman’s prayer

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy you for ever.

John Calvin

Lord, let your glory be my goal, your word my rule, and then your will be done.

King Charles I

Change the world, O Lord, beginning with me.

A Chinese student

Glory to God for all things.

John Chrysostom

O God, make us children of quietness and heirs of peace.

Clement of Rome

O Lord, never allow us to think we can stand by ourselves and not need you, our greatest need.

John Donne

My God and My All! The Meditation

Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi:

Teach me to pray. Pray yourself in me.

F. Fénelon

Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

The Jesus Prayer.

The Eastern Orthodox Church teaches that this prayer is to be said many times regularly during the day.

Lord, make me according to your heart.

Brother Lawrence

Lord, give us faith that right makes might.

Abraham Lincoln

Lord, make me see your glory in every place.

Michelangelo

The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labor for.

Thomas More

I ask not to see; I ask not to know; I ask only to be used.

J.H. Newman

O God, help us not to despise or oppose what we do not understand.

William Penn

Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener.

Jeremy Taylor

Pray God, keep us simple.

W.M. Thackeray

Lord, make your will our will in all things.

Charles Vaughan

Jesus, strengthen my desire to work and speak and think for you.

John Wesley

O Lord, let us not live to be useless, for Christ’s sake.

John Wesley