Praying Quotes
He who is too busy to pray will be too busy to live a holy life. Satan had rather we let the grass grow on the path to our prayer chamber than anything else.
Every surgeon carries within himself a small cemetery, where from time to time he goes to pray.
There is no better way to serve others than to pray for them. There is nothing about which I do not pray. I go over all my life in the presence of God. All my problems are solved there.
When a man has found the Lord, he no longer has to use words when he is praying, for the Spirit Himself will intercede for him with groans that cannot be uttered.
Whenever I'm in trouble, I pray. And because I'm in trouble all of the time, I pray almost constantly.
I don't mind praying to the Eternal Father, but I must be the only man in the country afflicted with an eternal mother.
If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg and pray for, as an alms, all that we need.
Out of a very intimate acquaintance with D.L. Moody, I wish to testify that he was a far greater pray-er than he was preacher.
Sometimes it helps to begin our prayers by confessing we don't feel like praying-and ask God to help us with our preference to be doing something else.
I just take one day at a time, pray, and know that whatever happens is God's will, so there's nothing I can do to change that.
Pray and seek for strength to change our circumstances rather than praying for our circumstances to be changed
Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.
When we want to speak to God, we pray. And when we want Him to speak to us, we search the scriptures.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
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.
Sometimes pain and illness are not meant to be removed. You can't second-guess God. Rather than praying for it to go away, it's often wiser to pray that you learn as much from it as you possibly can.
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things of the world.
Praying is what confirms our true belief that we cannot succeed without God, and its absence confirms the exact opposite.
It is more important to prevent animal suffering, rather than sit to contemplate the evils of the universe praying in the company of priests.
You believe in God, then you don't believe anymore and when you have a big problem, you pray anyway...
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
TO PLOW IS TO PRAY; TO PLANT IS TO PROPHESY, AND THE HARVEST ANSWERS AND FULFILLS.
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.
Sometimes I pray when I really feel like I need God to help me with something, and sometimes we just have conversations. We just kick it.
Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.
It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.
Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again?
