Prayer Quotes

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.

Prayer is doubts destroyer, ruin's remedy, the antidote to all anxieties.

Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

The gift of prayer is not always at our command.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.

Let him never cease from prayer who has once begun it, be his life ever so wicked; for prayer is the way to amend it, and without prayer such amendment will be much more difficult.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him."

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

Prayer is not just getting ready for Christian service. Prayer is Christian service.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.

Some prayers are followed by silence because they are wrong, others because they are bigger than we can understand.

In order to profit from this path [of prayer] and ascend to the dwelling places we desire, the important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me.

We are always in the presence of God, yet it seems to me that those who pray are in His presence in a very different sense.

The pride of learning is against the dependent humility of prayer.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere.

Christ can come back at any time so the one thing you want to have in your life is a focused prayer time.

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

Meditation is a huge part of my life. And prayer.

Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

Man's greatest power lies in the power of prayer.

President George Bush declared a National Day of Prayer for Peace. This was after he had carefully arranged and started the war.

Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven’s purpose on earth.

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional, to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever.

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

Once upon hearing a friend's bashing comment I said, "Did you reach that conclusion on your own, or did it come through prayer?"

To say a prayer is not enough. One has to believe that it's possible for that prayer to be heard.

I am one who believes that with God nothing is hopeless - that all things are possible through prayer.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.

Lord, make me a blessing to someone today

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done.