Prayer Quotes
One can believe intellectually in the efficacy of prayer and never do any praying.
Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.
Prayer is not a hard requirement - it is the natural duty of a creature to its creator, the simplest homage that human need can pay to divine liberality.
The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God.
Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.
Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.
Prayer is the ascending vapor which supplies The showers of blessing, and the stream that flows Through earth's dry places, till on every side "The wilderness shall blossom as the rose.
More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.
God designed the program of prayer as an 'apprenticeship' for eternal sovereignty with Christ.
The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone can make us consecrated men.
The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.
We must not trust in ourselves, but take the advice of our spiritual father, and recommend ourselves to everybodys prayers.
Believers must persevere in prayer that they may see clearly their own pitiful state and understand the indwelling, working, and demands of the Holy Spirit.
The prayer that prevails is not the work of lips and fingertips. It is the cry of a broken heart and the travail of a stricken soul.
True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.
In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children.
Prayer does make a difference-a life-changing, mind-blowing, earth-rattling difference.
The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.
How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.
Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.
Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.
And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.
The first thing I would do when I saw Bobby coming down at me was to say a little prayer if I had time. I'm sure I wasn't the only goalie who did that.
If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.
Your prayers, effort and fasting for many years are not lost. This is the time you have been praying for. Breakthrough!
We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.
I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.
Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.
Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me!
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.