Prayer Quotes
Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence.
Prayer is of transcendent importance. Prayer is the mightiest agent to advance God's work. Praying hearts and hands only can do God's work. Prayer succeeds when all else fails.
The amount of time we spend with Jesus - meditating on His Word and His majesty, seeking His face - establishes our fruitfulness in the kingdom.
There is nothing to be valued more highly than to have people praying for us; God links up His power in answer to their prayers.
If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."
How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.
God has not changed; and His ear is just as quick to hear the voice of real prayer, and His hand is just as long and strong to save; as it ever was.
The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
What we do every time we pray is to confess our impotence and God's sovereignty.
Prayer is not getting things from God. That is a most initial stage; prayer is getting into perfect communion with God: I tell Him what I know He knows in order that I may get to know it as He does.
If we pray little, it is probably because we do not really believe that prayer accomplishes much at all.
The power of prayer is like turning on a light as it illuminates God's purpose for our lives. There is no greater connection to knowing His will other than the word.
When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we find indeterminate or purely mystical vocation.
Hold prayer in high esteem. It is the foundation of all the virtues, and the source of all grace needed to sanctify ourselves and to discharge the duties of our employment.
A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.
A nation that turns away from prayer will ultimately find itself in desperate need of it.
Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us, choosing gratitude until we are grateful, and praising God until we ourselves are an act of praise.
If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing the right thing. That 10 minutes helps me in every way throughout the day.
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn’t answered you, He plans in your favor.
In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need to make our meditation before anything else.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.
God is in the midst of us, or rather we are in the midst of him; wherever we are he sees us and touches us: at prayer, at work, at table, at recreation.
The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.
The Rosary is a prayer both so humble and simple and a theologically rich in Biblical content. I beg you to pray it.
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!
Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.
What I've learned the more time I've spent following Jesus is that God delights in answering our impossible prayers.
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be far fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him