Quotes About Prayer

joined the circle and prayed with these men [homeless] who seemed on the outside to have nothing to give but had been giving, without our knowing it, the most precious gift of all: compassion.

Wounded and nearly blind with fear, I clung to the Scriptures: 'Ask and you shall receive...' 'Pray without ceasing...' 'I will do whatever you ask for in My name...' Grimly, I shut out another verse, this one from the book of Job: 'The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

Prayer was more important to Jesus than food.

God won't force His assistance on us. We must ask for His help. Why? Why should we pray when God already knows everything? He knows what we need before we ask. So why ask? God insists that we ask because He wants us to learn to depend on Him and give Him the credit for intervening in our lives. He knows that we won't give Him the credit unless we ask.

According to 2 Chronicles 7:14, "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

James, one of the leaders of the Early Church, tells us to ask for healing: "Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well" (Jas. 5:14-15). It is always right for us to pray for healing. Jesus healed, the apostles healed, and God still heals today.

Prayer had fortified him. It would require an almost superhuman strength of purpose, an absolute resolve, to save my brother from himself.

Lord, I ask You to open my eyes and enhance my understanding so that I can grasp what You want me to learn today [Psalm 119:18]. I also ask You to enable me, by Your Spirit, to apply the truths I learn to my daily life, and be guided moment by moment by Your Word [Psalm 119:105; 2 Timothy 3:15-17]. I thank You in Jesus' name. Amen.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me.

Don't kneel to me. That is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will enjoy hereafter.

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bond-man's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another, drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still must it be said, that the judgments of the Lord are righteous altogether.

We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place.

Remember what we learned earlier in this book: effective prayer occurs when you talk to God and listen to what God is saying to you. The main thing in your life is that you meet with God the first thing every day. When you pray, it demonstrates that you depend on God in your life. When you do not pray, it demonstrates that you are depending upon yourself. God wants to use prayer to influence your life.

Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between a child and his parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.

the wonder is not that God can answer prayer, but that he does, when we so imperfectly meet the conditions clearly laid down in his Word.

One famous female Sufi mystic and religious teacher was Rabi-'ah al-' Ada-wiyyah (712?801), who after a girlhood in slavery fled to the desert, where she rejected all offers of marriage and devoted herself to prayer and scholarship. Although the most distinguished of women Sufis, Rabi-'ah was not unique, since Sufism gave all women the chance to attain a holy dignity

Salmo 30 ("Senhor meu Deus, clamei a ti, e tu me saraste. Senhor, fizeste subir a minha alma da sepultura; conservaste-me a vida para que não descesse ao abismo").

Looking out of the window at the infinite sky, I prayed out, 'Dear Baby Jesus, I am sorry for my sin, even though I do not know what they are, which seems a bit unfair if it is going to be held against me. But that is your way. And I am not questioning your wisdomosity. In future, however, would it be possible for my life to be not so entirely crap? Thank you.

faith: belief in light of the absence of proof, enlightenment received through prayer, and that which is seen and unseen….

A poet once wrote that cathedrals were never built beside the sea because it was so beautiful it would distract the people from praying.

Please God, Let that be true. We all need to feel some happiness again soon.

That night Anne knelt sweetly by her open window in a great sheen of moonshine and murmured a prayer of gratitude and aspiration that came straight from her heart. There was in it thankfulness for the past and reverent petition for the future; and when she slept on her white pillow her dreams were as fair and bright and beautiful as maidenhood might desire.

Il senso della vita, cioè il senso del mondo, possiamo chiamarlo Dio. Pregare è pensare al senso della vita.