Quotes About Prayer

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

Throughout my life, I have talked to Heavenly Father regularly through prayer. I am very grateful to my parents for teaching me that Heavenly Father lives and that He always listens to us. He listens to me, and He listens to you. I know that He will always be there for you.

If I don't feel good in myself, I pray, and I can throw off those bad feelings.

I think of Pope Gregory the Great. He wanted the cloister. He wanted to pray and study, and yet he was thrust into this administrative job, and he submitted to that. And in that submission, he became a great leader. You could say that the only person who is safe to lead is the person who is free to submit.

It is important to learn to understand in a historical text, a text from the past, the living Word of God, that is, to enter into prayer and thus read Sacred Scripture as a conversation with God.

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

Lord, dismiss us with Thy blessing, Thanks for mercies past received.

In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

When I was growing up I was on a really tight budget. There was a lot I couldn't do. My mom encouraged my sister and I to pray about things and trust the Lord. It's important for parents to do that.

It's considered totally obscene to make any request to God, because if he doesn't know, what's the point asking him?

ceasing to live the life of prayer the life of the spirit begins to fail, then those worldly things which are intended to be useful become hurtful and destructive.

43] lord i refuse to engage prayer as a weapon i wish it to be like a river between two shores for i seek neither punishment nor grace but rather new skin that can bear this world

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

May my life be a continual prayer, a long act of love.

When we pray to God we must be seeking nothing — nothing.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

What I don't think they realize is that when they pray for a healing, death is a healing... It's not the healing that you might want, but as sure as we're born, we're going to die. And we're healed from the troubles of this world.

Praying with You Lord, so often we are overwhelmed by all the tasks ahead of us. Today help us to turn our eyes to You so that we can discern between the truly important tasks and those that will not add any real value to our lives. May we look to You as our Peace today. Amen.

A MOTHER'S PRAYER— Father of Encouragement Thank you for taking the time to show love to your disciples by affirming and encouraging them. Help us remember that our well-aimed words will carry life to the hearts of our children. Teach us to extol their positive characteristics whenever we can and to resist the temptation to use words only for correction. Give us lips that speak grace and that show the heart of your love through the things we say. Amen

We allow the habit of busyness to replace our habits of prayer and Scripture reading.

Interestingly enough, we found, the habit of regularly expressing our gratitude and our concerns to God actually made us more grateful and more determined to act generously on behalf of others. I think that's because regular prayer helps cultivate awareness, and awareness is key to both gratitude and generosity. We must learn how to nourish a heart that is keenly aware both of God's abundance as it comes to us and the needs of the world around us.