Quotes About Prayer

The Alexandrian Mystics' emphasis on silent prayer gave their teachings interior depth missing from Western theology today.

So perhaps the philosophers and politicians and poets are wrong; perhaps prayer isn't a crutch or an old man's bauble. Maybe it's a necessity for both the strongest and the weakest among us.

Prayer is not only a daily discipline that deepens our relationship with God; it also provides a way for us to be together in our aloneness.

Prayer is not only a daily discipline that deepens our relationship with God; it also provides a way for us to be together in our aloneness. Amen.

the essence of prayer is relationship

Despite his strength, Jim lost his battle with cancer. Fred understood that sometimes God's answer to prayer is no. But he understood something else too: "Jim gave us all an enormous gift by helping us understand the many forms of healing (not just physical) in this life.

every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.

Whatcha doing, Lieu?" she asked cautiously. "Praying," he muttered. "I suck at it." "Your doing it wrong," she said flatly. "I'm not big on church, but I'm pretty sure you're supposed to do it with a friend.

broken. "Please, God. Let him live." He slumped to the ground then, elbows holding his weight as he buried his face in his arms and cried.

God, my son was wounded as he fought forces beyond his control. He's a good boy, and he works hard to do what's right, and we love him very much. We ask that you care for him, and heal his wounds if it is your will, and care for his soul if it is not. May the one who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah, bless and heal Ellery Joseph Cramer.

Dane lowered his ear to make out what Clay was saying. It sounded like "Please get better, please get better, please get better…." And Dane closed his eyes and steeled his cynical heart and prayed.

It's a mystery. It's like all babies. It's a mystery, and all we can do is pray.

We need personal prayer—to sustain us, to help us find courage, to lament. Jesus provides the example that in cases of extreme concern, of course, we pray for ourselves.

Luke gently criticizes people who pray, and pray, but who fail to open the gate, or to see the need at their doorstep.

and I'm sure I was not the only child who thought "Harold" was God's name and that we prayed not to be led into Penn Station.

God didn't ask to be prayed or worshiped at church, we did.

The most important thing in my life is to be the best mother that I can be to my daughter and two sons; full of blessings and love. I can guide them, pray for their goals to be achieved, and follow a good path; but ultimately it will be up to them to live their own lives and make their own choices knowing there are rewards and consequences.

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

WARMING UP BEFORE THE MATCH, I pray. Not for a win, but for my hairpiece to stay on.

Solitude is bearable only with God

When I answered that I did not pray, he sternly rebuked me. "You're in Hell. You'd better start".

She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain.

I pray for the gift of silence, Of emptiness and solitude, Where everything I touch is turned into prayer:

I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers.