Quotes About Prayer

La oración no es decirle a Dios lo que debe hacer y luego esperar su respuesta positiva e inmediata. La oración es cooperar con Dios para que Él pueda liberar su poder.

Un beneficio de las oraciones que tardan en ser contestadas es la purificación de los motivos. Cuanto más se calienten nuestros sueños en las llamas de la frustración, más se quemarán las impurezas de nuestros motivos.

Con demasiada frecuencia conseguimos bendiciones vagas porque hacemos oraciones vagas. Si queremos respuestas específicas, tenemos que hacer peticiones específicas.

Dios quiere y puede concedernos nuestros deseos más profundos que tienen "motivos puros".

I cannot change the world. You cannot change the world. Even prayer alone doesn't change the world. Only God can change the world! However, God uses prayer to change us, and then God uses us to change our world.

You're going to provoke an internal war when you begin to consistently pray in tongues, because impurities will soon start to surface that you don't want to get rid of. God will endeavor to purge those impurities off your life so you can fulfill your divine call without being destroyed by the devil.

The Holy Spirit is a Person just as each of us is a person. When we were born again, we received Him in the creative process that caused us to become new creations. But we didn't receive Him in His fullness until we were baptized in the Holy Ghost. Now He lives inside us, partnering with us in prayer, empowering our lives, and bringing revelation of the Word as we walk in obedience to God.

As the Holy Spirit prays for us, He purges us on three levels: spirit, soul, and body.

The day you decide to lock yourself in your prayer closet to spend some quality time with the Lord in prayer — that is the day you will enter Heaven's classroom here on earth with the Holy Spirit as your Teacher.

Our fasting doesn't move God; it moves us to a place where we can receive from God.

Praying in tongues is a priceless gift that God has given us so we can feel rested and refreshed right in the middle of a very imperfect world! Jesus

The diligent reading of Sacred Scripture accompanied by prayer brings about that intimate dialogue in which the person reading hears God who is speaking, and in praying, responds to him with trusting openness of heart. If it is effectively promoted, this practice will bring to the Church—I am convinced of it—a new spiritual springtime. —Pope Benedict XVI

It seems to me that in a pastoral situation our first risk is to throw people back on themselves with exhortations and instructions as to what to do, and how to do it... [Actually we are] to direct people to the Gospel of Grace—to Jesus Christ, that they might look to Him to lead them, open their hearts in faith and in prayer, and to draw them by the Spirit into His eternal life of communion with the Father

I just thank God for all of the blessings.

one hidden act of kindness is worth more than all the burial mounds of rhetoric, all the mumbling and fumbling and tardiness of Christians so preoccupied with cultivating their prayer lives that they cannot hear the anguished cry of the child in the barrio.

As such, we should pray, as Macrina Weiderkehr prayed so eloquently, "O God, help me to believe the truth about myself, no matter how beautiful.

Canadian comedian, Emo Phillips, said he used to pray every night for a bike until he realised that the Lord doesn't always work that way, so he stole one and then prayed for forgiveness.

the conclusion that Jesus said `Abba' to God for precisely the same reason that (most of) his contemporaries refrained from its use in prayer - viz., because it expressed his attitude to God as Father, his experience of God as one of unusual intimacy.60

He asked God to give him wisdom to do the right thing and for Him to show him His will for him going forward.

May we learn to pray the Lord's prayers through the only book of prayers God has given to us—the Psalms of David's Greater Son, Jesus Christ! The Lord who inspired and prayed the Psalms must teach us to preach, sing, and pray them so that the Name of Jesus Christ may be spoken and loved in all the tribes, languages, peoples, and nations of the world.

The Psalter occupied an enormous place in the life of our Lord. He used it as His prayer book in the Jewish synagogue during His whole life. It was His songbook in all the temple festivals. He sang from it after the Last Supper.

We must be candid enough to acknowledge that to pray for the extension of God's kingdom is to solicit the destruction of all other kingdoms. This is the unique prayer life of the disciples of Christ. When we pray as Jesus taught us, we cry out to God for His blessings upon His church and for His curses upon the kingdom of the evil one. As Harry Mennega succinctly stated, "Advance and victory for the Church means retreat and defeat for the kingdom of darkness.

Has this present lack of vigor resulted, at least in part, from failure to attack the kingdom of darkness by forceful prayer and preaching? What does God tell us about the source of our glory as His saints?

Fasting, when practised in prudence, and genuine prayer are conducive to the development of faith with its accompanying power for good. Individual application of this principle may be made with profit. Have you some besetting weakness, some sinful indulgence that you have vainly tried to overcome? Like the malignant demon that Christ rebuked in the boy, your sin may be of a kind that goeth out only through prayer and fasting.