Quotes About Prayer

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Prayer and a holy life are one. They mutually act and react. Neither can survive alone. The absence of the one is the absence of the other.

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.

Those who know God the best are the richest and most powerful in prayer. Little acquaintance with God, and strangeness and coldness to Him, make prayer a rare and feeble thing.

There is no promise too hard for God to fulfill. No prayer is too big for Him to answer!

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

Centering prayer is a training in letting go.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

Prayer gives us relief from the melancholy burden of self-absorption .

A prayer couched in the words of the soul, is far more powerful than any ritual.

A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.

God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays.

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

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

Prayer is the evidence that I am spiritually concentrated on God.

Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.