Prayer Quotes

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

Although no words can really help to ease the loss you bear, Just know that you are very close in every thought and prayer. To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.

My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today.

Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.

It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

Where prayer, amulets and incantations work it is only a manifestation of the patient's belief.

The mightiest prayers are often those drenched with the Word of God.

Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you in love with Jesus?

At the heart of every revival is the spirit of prayer.

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Prayer is the greatest use of my words.

O Scotia! my dear, my native soil! For whom my warmest wish to Heaven is sent

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

You don't need a formal prayer or invocation to call the angels to your side. Simply think, 'Angels, please surround me,' and they are there.

Prayer sweeps the battlefield, slays the enemy, and buries the bones.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

The reason so many people do not pray is because of its cost. The cost is not so much in the sweat of agonizing supplication as in the daily fidelity to the life of prayer.

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.

Our praying, to be strong, must be buttressed by holy living. The life of faith perfects the prayer of faith.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

Little praying is a kind of make believe, a salve for the conscience, a farce and a delusion.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.