Quotes About Prayer

True Prayer is not just Talking to God But rather Listening to Him.

We can do very little with faith, But we can do nothing without it. And so without prayer, Life would be a sad exit.

The Scottish evangelical preacher Thomas Chalmers (1780–1847) has said, "Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God."21

A. W. Tozer once wrote, "Do you know who gives me the most trouble? Do you know who I pray for the most in my pastoral work? Just myself."28

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of God ever refusing anyone who came to Him seeking healing.

Luther could say, 'It is not a bad, but a very good sign if the opposite of what we pray for appears to happen. Just as it is not a good sign if our prayers eventuate in the fulfillment of all we ask for. If everything were to go the way I want it, I would end up in that kind of false security which is really an instrument of the divine judgment.

Because of my nature, I find 'spiritual' and 'creative' to be synonymous. I am not exclusively a Christian; but for me work is prayer. So in pleading for the nurture of creativity, in life and in education, I plead for the nuture of the spiritual. I cannot separate the two.

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go.

What about your church prayer meeting? Is it tucked away somewhere because there is a busy program in operation and folks have no time to stop and pray? What would happen if your whole Sunday school gathered together for one hour to wait upon God, to beseech Him to pour out His blessing on your church? Too frequently our programs make no room for God's presence or for His power to work. Churches have plenty of people ready to interfere, but very few willing to intercede.

way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting" (Ps. 139:23–24)? If you go on through life blindly confident but

when He has the ultimate solution for the problem. How beautiful is that! Prayer Jesus, I thank

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go up, we can talk about something else... and I will pray for you.

I wanna rhyme about God.

I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.

I grew up in the church, and my mom is, like a major prayer warrior.

I'm a morning person so I like to be up by 6 am to wash and pray before the sun rises, and then have a tea at the kitchen table.

I became the very air; I was full of stars. I was the soaring spaces between the spires of the cathedral, the solemn breath of chimneys, a whispered prayer upon the winter wind. I was silence, and I was music, one clear transcendent chord rising toward Heaven.

If he was going to figure out his life, he had a feeling he needed more time on his knees, lifting up holy hands without doubt.

Like all genuine prayers, this prayer is a powerful way of embracing life, finding a home in any outcome

No one is useless who can pray, my sister.

More strictly defined, meditation is thinking about God. Prayer is actually speaking to God, either in words or in silent contemplation.

For God does not command the impossible, but by commanding he instructs you both to do what you can and to pray for what you cannot, and he gives you his aid to enable you.333

There is a particular spiritual practice that Francis highly recommends that is possible for all of us: even on those "impossible" days when we are perhaps unable to undertake our normal spiritual practices, we can stay rooted in prayer by constantly addressing brief prayers to the Lord. These can be acts of love, of adoration, of faith, of hope, of petition, or simply of saying the name of Jesus—throughout the course of the day.