Quotes About Prayer

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and this is precisely why it makes sense to come to God with them.

Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.

If you are too busy for prayer, you are too busy for a relationship with God.

Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.

I can tell that you been crying all night, drinking all summer, praying for your happiness, hope that you recover

My relationship with God is as strong as the time and energy I put into connecting with God.

I'm connected to religion and that's how I access God. I'm in a relationship with God that can sometimes be informed by religion, but not dependent on religion.

It isn't about singing a particular hymn or reciting a prayer – it's about a relationship with your Heavenly Father who loves and cares for you.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me.

HARRINGTON: And God hears your prayer, doesn't he? We hear Joy's getting better. ... LEWIS: That's not why I pray, Harry. I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God, it changes me.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

Regan's pulse was astonishing. It hammered at a speed too rapid to gauge. Across the bed, Merrin reached out calmly and with the end of his thumb traced the sign of the cross on Regan's vomit-covered chest. The words of his prayer were swallowed up in the poundings.

An anguished moan escaped from Karras as he bowed his head above the Host. He struck his breast as if it were time and murmured, "Domine, no sum dignus.... I am not worthy... say but the word and my soul shall be healed.

Every Sunday when I was little," Gus said. "My parents insisted I pray for forgiveness for all the things you talked me into doing. But this isn't from the Bible. It's from Vampire Tales number two." "That would be one of your lesser-known holy books.

Immortal gods, I crave no pelf;I pray for no man but myself:Grant I may never prove so fond,To trust man on his oath or bond.

I had most need of blessing, and "Amen"Stuck in my throat.

Down on your knees,And thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Now might I do it pat, now he is praying;And now I'll do 't: and so he goes to heaven;And so I am reveng'd.

And my ending is despair,Unless I be reliev'd by prayer,Which pierces so that it assaultsMercy itself and frees all faults.

Nymph, in thy orisonsBe all my sins remember'd.

We ought to bring all matters to the Lord, not only urgent ones, and discover His heart and mind on them.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.