Quotes About Prayer

Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books].

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

It is not always those who have the most eminent gifts who are the most successful laborers for God. It is generally those who keep up closest communion with Christ and are most constant in prayer.

Nowhere does Jesus hear our prayers more readily than in the Blessed Sacrament

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

Prayer will promote our personal holiness as nothing else, except the study of the Word of God.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

All earth-born hopes with time must pass away; prayer grasps eternal things; pray, always pray.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.

Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer.

Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!

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.

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.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

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.

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.