Quotes About Prayer

Ahem. Dear Jesus, Taylor intoned more fervently. We just want to thank you for gettin' us here safe --- There was a loud, gurgling groan. Somebody shouted, Oh my gosh! Miss Delaware just died! --- for gettin some of us here safe, Taylor continued. And we pray that, as we are fine, upstandin', law-abidin' girls who represent the best of the best, you will protect us from harm and keep us safe until we are rescued and can tell our story to People magazine. Amen. - Beauty Queens

Sometimes when the wind blows through the leaves, it sounds like your name. It's like a sigh then. The most beautiful sound I ever heard. A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer – Gem-ma, Gem-ma – and then the leaves trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

Sometimes, when the wind blows through them leaves, it sounds like your name. It's like a sigh, then, she says. The most beautiful sound I ever heard. A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and trail delicate fingers across my cold cheeks.

I can see those… hideous beasts coming out of the burning walls. I hear Naughty John telling me—warning me—about my own brother! He knew about James, Sam. When I stand still, I see all of it. So I don't stand still, and I certainly don't go looking for more. And every night before bed, I pray for those pictures to go out of my head. When the prayers don't work, I ask the gin to do it.

When confronted with negative circumstances, we have a choice: Will we pray about the problem or will we worry about it?

The words of Scripture are plain: God hates greed. It's ugly. It breeds other sins. It consumes and controls us. We can't get rid of greed with a halfhearted wish or a token prayer. We must wholeheartedly come before the Lord and beg Him to remove this wretched leech with her long-reaching tentacles.

We commit sin when we worry. We do not trust God when we worry. We do not receive answers to prayer when we worry, because we are not trusting.

Perhaps it was the word God that was inviting to me, a word I thought I knew too much about. The one who had tortured Job, who had Abraham lift the ax to his son, who, disguised as a whale, had swallowed Jonah. I know now that the name does not refer to any deity, but means simply to call out and pray, to summon.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can be a better place to live in.

If we do not fill our mind with prayer, it will fill itself with anxieties, worries, temptations, resentments, and unwelcome memories.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Remember God more often than you breathe.

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

Spiritual joy arises from purity of the heart and perseverance in prayer.

The Ego is a veil between humans and God'." "In prayer all are equal.

Prayer is the most powerful form of energy one can generate....It supplies us with a flow of sustaining power in our daily lives.

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

When prayer fades out, power fades out. We are as spiritual as we are prayerful; no more, no less.

I've often thought, I'm nobody. Why would God answer my prayer? But God's not impressed by eloquence; he's impressed by our longing for him.

The only things that really need to be accomplished in the home are daily scripture study and prayer and weekly family home evening.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.