Quotes About Prayer

With every pill we have prescribed for us we should also be given a creative prayer, a suggested way to correct our destructive patterns of thought.

The Secret of Praying is Praying in Secret. The secret place of prayer calls for every faculty of mind and heart.

Warlords of sorrow and queens of tomorrow will offer their heads for a prayer. You can't find no salvation, you have no expectations anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm.

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

And the stately lilies stand Fair in the silvery light, Like saintly vestals, pale in prayer; Their pure breath sanctifies the air, As its fragrance fills the night.

Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.