Quotes About Prayer

I talk to God and ask Him to help me. I tell Him that everything I say and do in the game is for His glory and I ask Him to put me an angel on each side, in each post, and behind me so that everything can turn out fine.

I don't want to stand on stage night after night, without being on my face beforehand truly crying out for those that have come to the event.

Every time I start chasing my tail, and I'm trying to control all these elements of my universe, I pray, 'I'm not in control of any of this. I can just do the best I can. Please guide me. Please help me figure how I can move through this in the way You would have me.'

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

It doesn't matter how you pray. Just pray. All religions are beautiful and they all have one common belief. There's something bigger and greater than us that can give us and take from us life. It is better than the here and now.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

I prayed fervently for a series regular job on a show that had the perceived caliber of talent that '30 Rock' had.

I talk to Allah, I pray to him.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

Let a man live with God, not afraid to talk with him. Let him study God's plans and methods, as one of Michelangelo's pupils might study his.

I was really talkative as a child. The priest used to pray for me not to talk so much because I was distracting the other kids.

I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.

When I was little, I looked in the mirror and held the Bible in my hand - that's how I talked to God. I never just asked for stuff. The way I saw it, if you give Him something, you get something.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

I determined to learn to pray so that my experience conforms to the words of Jesus rather than try to make his words conform to my impoverished experience.

Your prayer must be turned inwards, not towards a God of Heaven nor towards a God far off, but towards God who is closer to you than you are aware.

We are not trying to manipulate God and tell Him what to do. Rather, we are asking Him to tell us what to do.

Simple Prayer involves ordinary people bringing ordinary concerns to a loving and compassionate Father. There is no pretense in Simple Prayer. We do not pretend to be more holy, more pure, or more saintly than we actually are. We do not try to conceal our conflicting and contradictory motives from God—or ourselves. And in this posture we pour out our heart to the God who is greater than our heart and who knows all things (1 John 3:20).

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Our problem is that we assume prayer is something to master the way we master algebra or auto mechanics. That puts us in the "on-top" position, where we are competent and in control. But when praying, we come "underneath," where we calmly and deliberately surrender control and become incompetent.

But what I have come to see is that God is big enough to receive us with all our mixture. We do not have to be bright, or pure, or filled with faith, or anything. That is what grace means, and not only are we saved by grace, we live by it as well. And we pray by it.

The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives—altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter.

all authentic prayer is a scraping of the heart whereby the dregs of the soul are offered up to God.