Prayer Quotes
My love for you is a prayer, she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.
. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.
The single most important piece of advice about prayer is one word: Begin!
Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint
Close your eyes, and with Jesus, journey back through your day. As you do, confess sin as you see it...
The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.
There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.
We must pray in order to grow, and we must grow because Infinite Love will not, cannot, settle for less than the greatest joy of which his beloved creature is capable.
Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.
Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.
One common cause of this mistake of preferring to imagine and admire a great ideal instead of beginning to do little deeds is our impatience with little baby steps, our lack of humility.
The circumstances of our lives are pieces of a larger scheme in the puzzle of life, and in His Perfect Wisdom, the pieces fit.
Author challenges parents to bridge the gap with maturing, more independent kids with what he calls "Knock and Pray". He says parents should invite their kids to unscheduled times to "pray... big".
Fill my mouth with the accuracy and potency of Your word and Spirit that I may make war through prayer with swift precision (Psalm 144:1).
If all else fails, we then factor (fall) into our equation. And pray hard, someone factors (catching us) into theirs.
Choose God, his word, prayer, and spiritual vitamins. As you fight the battle with these tools, you will also be simultaneously choosing your victory.
Prayer was never meant to be magic, ' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love, ' Mother said.
God promises to hear and answer our prayers, but he doesn't always answer the way we want him to.
We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
...It is far more sinful to pray irregularly than not to pray at all.
Why is it that we feel bad when “all” we can do for a person is pray for them? We feel like we need to work to help, but remember: prayer is the work.
Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.
If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart.
God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.
Tangaloor, fire-brightFlame-foot, farthest walkerYour hunter speaksIn need he walksIn need, but never in fear.
Sometimes not getting what you want is God's greatest blessing.
It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you gain from the conversation.
If prayer fails I am in a greater darkness yet, not knowing whether I have presumed too much or believed too little.
Lack of spiritual desire should grieve us and lead us to lament its absence, to seek earnestly for its bestowal, so that our praying, henceforth, should be an expression of the soul's sincere desire.
Since God exists outside of time, He also has all of the time He needs to personally act in each of our lives. There is never a rush to the next meeting or the next message.
When I look back, I realize I was praying for something God had already given me.
Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.
Pray FOR positive outcomes, never ON perceived dilemmas
In moments of prayer, people tend to pose as a critic and point out perceived flaws in God's art.
When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.
Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.
Mental prayer is, as I see it, simply a friendly intercourse and frequent solitary conversation with Him who, as we know, loves us.
We have an allergic reaction to dependency, but this is the state of the heart most necessary for a praying life. A need heart is a praying heart. Dependency is the heartbeat of prayer.