Quotes About Prayer

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.

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.

You're never without hope, because you're never without 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.

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

The correct prayer is never one of supplication but one of gratitude.

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.

A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.

Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country's greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments.

Poetry and prayer are very similar.

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

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

Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.

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

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

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

I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.

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.

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

One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

No prayer fully expresses our faith.

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.