Quotes About Prayer

Dear Lord, help me to break even. I need the money.

When at night you cannot sleep, talk to the Shepherd and stop counting sheep.

Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth.

Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

God tells us to burden him with whatever burdens us.

Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord my tears to keep My baby sleeps in Heaven's arms Peaceful with angelic charms Take my tears but grant me a kiss From the angel baby I so miss.

Introibo ad altare Dei [I will go in to the altar of God].

Lord, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?

Trying to maintain order during a legalized gang brawl involving 80 toughs with a little whistle, a hanky and a ton of prayer.

Orate est laborare, laborare est orare [To pray is to work, to work is to pray].

Chamdi is always uncomfortable when he asks for something. Each morning, all the children collect in this prayer room and, instead of praying, they close their eyes and make demands. Chamdi does not feel this is real prayer. To him, real prayer means sending a bright thought, like "Thank you" or "I love you", too heaven. That is prayer. The moment you ask for something, the prayer room becomes a marketplace.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

O HAPPY FAULT! The Jewish mystic Baal Shem had a curious way of praying to God. "Remember, Lord," he would say, "you need me just as much as I need you. If you did not exist, whom would I pray to? If I did not exist, who would do the praying?" It brought me joy to think that if I had not sinned God would have had no occasion to be forgiving.

Most priests and religious equate prayer with thinking. That is their downfall.

Profanity has been known to offer spiritual relief denied to prayer.

Somebody said about most retreats that we begin them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and we end as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.)

One of the biggest enemies to prayer is nervous tension.

Together, the unlikeliest of penitents, silently, grafting words to air, they sent their prayers into the room.

Malouins send up oaths: Lord God safeguard this

A single fruit fly in his wine can send a black thread twisting through his mood that lingers for days. Widow Theodora says that Kalaphates needs compassion, that the remedy to every woe is prayer, and after dark Maria kneels in their cell in front of the icon of Saint Koralia, her lips moving silently, sending devotions up past the beams.

that the remedy to every woe is prayer

He thinks of the Christians sitting up on the walls, and the people praying inside the houses and churches of the city, and he wonders at the mystery of how one god can manage the thoughts and terrors of so many.