Quotes About Prayer

A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

The joy which answers to prayer give, cannot be described; and the impetus which they afford to the spiritual life is exceedingly great.

Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.

Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life. ...We do not take the spiritual life seriously if we do not set aside some time to be with God and listen to him.

Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.

One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.

As a rule, prayer is answered and funds come in, but if we are kept waiting, the spiritual blessing that is the outcome is far more precious than exemption from the trial.

The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

Prayer is a friendly conversation with the One we know loves us.

I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.

Prayer power is real. By putting it into action, we will be able to stay more constantly in higher awareness than ever before. If we can do that, the world will quickly change.

The Christian's heart must be soaked in prayer before the true spiritual fruits begin to grow.

Blessings are the spiritual equivalent of breathing in, and prayer is the spiritual equivalent of breathing out.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

To pray is to cast off your burdens, it is to tear away your rags, it is to shake off your diseases, it is to be filled with spiritual vigor, it is to reach the highest point of Christian health.

In the prayer time, the battle of the spiritual life is lost or won.

Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

A satisfying prayer life elevates and purifies every act of body and mind and integrates the entire personality into a single spiritual unit. In the long pull we pray only as well as we live.

Do not try to decide a difficult matter by means of disputing, but that which is enjoined by the spiritual law, namely patience, prayer, and thoughtful hope.

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

Deepen your existing spiritual commitment.

Breathe a word of prayer, not anger.