Quotes About Prayer

My grandparents and my mom prayed the rosary a lot, and later in life, I had a priest friend of mine teach me centering prayer, based on Father Thomas Keating's work. That led to practicing different kinds of meditation off and on as I got older.

I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously.

Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.

I don't believe in God, in prayer, in going to temples begging God to give me and my family happiness. I am not asking everyone to be an atheist, but good thoughts are not spent in a temple.

While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.

To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don't line up with God's Word, you'll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

I've always believed in the power of prayer. One prayer can accomplish more than a thousand plans. That isn't a magic formula, but it's an idea that if you pray, keep praying and then praying some more.

It is wrong and just plain stupid not to ask your guidance when you so graciously make it available. I repent and trust your Holy Spirit to prompt me to pray for guidance every day. Thanksgiving

Then I'd scroll to the comments, and read the names of every blog reader who had promised to pray for me. Sometimes, I'd read their comments out loud. Lying in that bed, I pictured myself as a big sponge, enthusiastically absorbing all the love and peace and joy and light that these prayers were sending out in my direction.

Dear Heavenly Father, this item has brought me so many blessings, and now, I no longer have need of it. Please send me someone who will cherish this item as I have cherished it, and may it bless them as richly as it has blessed me. May this item fulfill a specific need for a specific individual, and may it continue to bless them for many years. Thank you!

think about all the people who'd sat in these pews before me, and the many prayers that had been sent heavenward.

Lockington said, "'Use not vain repetitions as the heathen do, for they think they shall be heard for their much speaking.'" She clapped her hands. "Oh, that's excellent! Who said it?" "My father—he used it twenty times a day." "It sounds almost biblical." "It is biblical—it's the only verse my old man ever memorized.

He has decided to be our friend – indeed, the word in Greek can be even stronger, our lover – the one who really embraces us and is as close as we can imagine. Very near the heart of Christian prayer is getting over the idea that God is somewhere a very, very long way off, so that we have to shout very loudly to be heard. On the contrary: God has decided to be an intimate friend and he has decided to make us part of his family, and we always pray on that basis.

prayer is in significant part about resolving conflict and rivalry. If people prayed seriously they would be reconciled.

But the reconciliation of the world to God cannot be described as an episode in history among others; it is a change in what historical agents may hope for, think about and pray about.

I close my eyes, then I drift away, into the magic night I softly say. A silent prayer, like dreamers do, then I fall asleep to dream my dreams of you.

era incompreensível o fato de que nas orações da noite que sua mãe orava com ele apenas os seres humanos fossem mencionados.

For frantic boast and foolish word—Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!

If I were damned of body and soul,I know whose prayers would make me whole,Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him seesThat half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees.

A fool there was and he made his prayer(Even as you and I!)To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair(We called her the woman who did not care)But the fool he called her his lady fair—(Even as you and I!)