Quotes About Prayer

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

I would like to explain that I consider prayer above all an act of gratitude for existence.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

Put legs to your prayers

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

Prayer should be done regularly, persistently, resolutely, and tenaciously at least daily, whether we feel like it or not.

Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Purity is the fruit of prayer.

The Rosary is a school of Prayer. The Rosary is a school of Faith.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

Love and prayer are intimately related.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail?

Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit.