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William James Quotes about Prayer

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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

William James
Prayer, Philosophical, Worry

The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by us doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.

William James
Prayer, Exercise, Doctors
William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis (1982). “Essays in Religion and Morality”, p.160, Harvard University Press

We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

William James
Prayer, Science, Simple

But petitional prayer is only one department of prayer; and if we take the word in the wider sense as meaning every kind of inward communion or conversation with the power recognized as divine, we can easily see that scientific criticism leaves it untouched. Prayer in this wide sense is the very soul and essence of religion.

William James
Prayer, Essence, Soul
William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.151, Xist Publishing

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