Quotes about prayer

Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animalA man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.

There are people whose suffering makes them take their mind off other things in life so focused are they on their misery that they fail to notice their simple blessings. My prayer for such people is May they not ignore the happiness that still exists. May they see the rainbow at the end of the road. May they find strength to carry on and never give up. May they never lose hope.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

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

Prayer does not alter that which God has determined it never changes anything. It merely achieves what He has already foreordained.

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying I wish I had watched more TV instead.

The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer not those who can explain about prayer but I mean those people who take time and pray

You don't know how many people have been strengthened because you asked God to encourage them how many people have been healed because you prayed for their bodies how many spiritual runaways have come home because you prayed for their souls. None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors.

I firmly believe God continues to answer the prayers of His people even after He has taken them to heaven. Never forget that God isn’t bound by time the way we are. We see only the present moment God sees everything. We see only part of what He is doing He sees it all.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The Church is looking for better methods God is looking for better men.

Prayer is not itself powerful it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father of unlimited goodness and ability.

Prayer is my chief work by it I carry on all else. Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of him that we are capable of in this life. It is the noblest exercise of the soul. It is the most exalted use of our best faculties. It is the highest imitation of the blessed beings of heaven.

Prayer is not mere wishing. It is asking – with a will. . . . It is energy. We turn to an active Giver therefore we go into action.

The praise and glorification of God doesn't exclusively spring from deep and untroubled understanding it is in spite of – and even because of – deep and troubled circumstance.

[M]editation is the life of of most other duties and the view of heaven is the life of meditation (559).

Prayer is asking Meditation is listening.

Prayer is not our using of God it more often puts us in the position where God can use us.

Prayer is more than a wish it is the voice of faith directed to God.

You don’t need to be anywhere God can take you where you have to be.

Develop your prayer language increase your prayer coverage.

Prayer is our voice intuition is God’s answer.

You pray and nothing happens. You pray and nothing happens.You pray and nothing happens.You pray - and something is bound to happen!.

Prayer isn’t about repeating rituals it’s about spending time with Dad.

Prayer will carry you to Judgment Day it is your nourishment and your protection. In prayer you are closest to God. It is then that you develop your own personal relationship with God.

Faith is where they learn about their God but Prayer is where they explore Him.

Scream silently in your prayer remember the pain of others.

Everybody wants a miracle we just don't want to be in a situation where we need one. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes what we perceive as our problem is really God setting us up to do something miraculous in our lives. It's about training ourselves to see those problems as opportunities so God can intervene.

Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.

The dull pray the geniuses are light mockers.

Laughter and prayer are the two noblest habits of man they mark us off from the brutes.

The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen to pray is to see and breathe.

Let us not take what we eat for granted let us view our meals as an opportunity to give our Lord praise.

Prayer is inward communication with yourself action is outward conversation with God.

Prayer is not about a list prayer is about a lifestyle.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers he knew it.

Learning to pray doesn't offer us a less busy life it offersus aless busy heart.

I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment the little daily dose.

God has given me life He is capable of anything else.

When you pray as much as you work you achieve as much as you dream.

Jesus kept it simple. The lesson wasn't complicated. 'I speak you believe My word your son will be fine.' We complicate what God has made simple by seeing the world through human eyes. We want to see in order to believe and presume that our limitations are His.

If the only prayer you said is ‘The Lord’s Prayer’ it is enough.

Get crazy in prayer. Ask for the seemingly impossible then watch it happen. Do not make judgments on what you are worthy of. Save the practicality for other aspects of your life.

The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.

All I did was pray to God, every day. In prison camp, the main prayer was, 'Get me home alive, God, and I'll seek you and serve you.' I came home, got wrapped up in the celebration, and forgot about the hundreds of promises I'd made to God.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life.

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

God has more powerful aways to show Himself than any human postulate.And yet, a postulate is the highest form of prayer.

Awaken my spirit.Awaken my soul.Awaken my strength.

'Kol Nidrei' is probably the most important prayer in the Jewish religion. It comes on the evening of Yom Kippur. There are so many different renditions of it.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

All my time not devoted to my master's service was spent either in prayer, or in making experiments in casting different things in moulds made of earth, in attempting to make paper, gunpowder, and many other experiments, that, although I could not perfect, yet convinced me of its practicability if I had the means.

My longing for truth was a single prayer.

In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.

Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checklist' prayers and engage in meaningful prayer as we appropriately ask in faith and act, as we patiently persevere through the trial of our faith, and as we humbly acknowledge and accept 'not my will, but Thine, be done.'

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Some churches make intercessory prayer part of their weekly schedule. If that's not the case at your church, find another person in the faith to intercede with or go before God on your own.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith.

In prayer, we stand where angels bow with veiled faces. There, even there, the cherubim and seraphim adore before that selfsame throne to which our prayers ascend. And shall we come there with stunted requests and narrow, contracted faith?

Don't be discouraged if the answer to your prayer does not come immediately. Study, ponder, and pray, sincerely having faith, and live the commandments.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life's daily frustrations.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Through prayer, fasting, and studying, God will answer.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Let God's grace be the mosque, and devotion the prayer mat. Let the Quran be the good conduct.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Guantanamo Bay can be and has been visited repeatedly by the International Red Cross and other human-rights groups for observation in an open, regular, and transparent manner. Detainees receive the same medical care as the guard force and are able to participate in their daily prayer sessions.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.

Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon.

The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up Scripture and make it come alive to us, to open our understanding. He left his Spirit with us until we join him in Heaven.

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