Quotes About Prayer

Dear God,        Please impress upon me        The vision of whom I am meant to be.        Reveal to me the bigger life        That You would have me live.        Undo the forces that keep me bound,        That I might serve You more.        Amen.

Dear God, Please free me from false appetites and take away my pain. Take from me my addicted self, and show me who I am. Unchain my heart so I might live a freer life at last. Amen

You can ask the Holy Spirit to change your perceptions.

Dear God, I surrender to you all my thoughts about money, I surrender to you my debts, I surrender to you my wealth. Open my mind to receive abundantly. Channel your abundance through me in a way that serves the world. Amen

Tenemos este absurdo hábito autoderrotista de recurrir a Dios como último recurso en vez de invocarlo en primer lugar.

Naming it, surrendering it to God, and asking Him to remove it—that's the miracle of personal transformation

Todos y cualquiera de nosotros puede orar para pedir milagros, y Él nos escucha a todos y cada uno cuando se los pedimos.

Dios de amor, Pongo este problema sobre tu altar Sírvete interpretar para mí esta situación. Que yo vea sólo el amor en los demás y en mí. Muéstrame lo que debo ver, Guíame a lo que debo hacer. Ayúdame a perdonar. Elévame por encima del dolor que hay en mi mente. Gracias, Dios. Amén.

Todas las mañanas, al despertar, podemos bendecir el mundo. Podemos orar para lograr ser hoy los seguidores de algo realmente sagrado y verdadero. Podemos respirar profundo y entregarnos al Plan de Dios por toda nuestra vida. Y, cuando lo hagamos, experimentaremos los milagros. Lo más importante es esto: si no lo hacemos, nos sentiremos deprimidos.

Dios amado, te entrego esta situación. Que sea usada para tus propósitos. Sólo te pido que mi corazón esté abierto para dar y recibir amor. Que todos los resultados se produzcan de acuerdo con tu voluntad. Amén».

The five dollars I gave her would never reach her. I knew that: because I wanted my class to think me good for giving it. Spiritual Pride the nuns called it, a Sin of Intention, sister to the Sin of Omission, which was the price for what you hadn't done but thought. Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I'd beg it to stop, and it would.

Sometimes I prayed so hard for God to materialize at the foot of my bed it would start to happen; then I'd beg it to stop, and it would.

She treated her patients with medicine and she treated them with prayer and sacrifice and ritual, because for her there could be no clear separation of the physical, the mental, and the spiritual.

The story is told of Mother Theresa that when an interviewer asked her. What do you say when you pray? she answered, I listen. The reporters paused a moment, then asked, Then what does God say? and she replied, He listens. It is hard to imagine a more succinct way to get at the intimacy of contemplative prayer.

I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.

He said, Family is a prayer. Wife is a prayer. Marriage is a prayer. Baptism is a prayer. No, he said. Baptism is a what I'd call a fact.

sometimes I'm just up the whole night wishing I weren't. (I do recommend prayer at such times, because often they mean something is in need of resolving.

In the old days I could walk down every single street, past every house, in about an hour. I'd try to remember the people who lived in each one, and whatever I knew about them, which was often quite a lot, since many of the ones who weren't mine were Boughton's. And I'd pray for them. And I'd imagine peace they didn't expect and couldn't account for descending on their illness or their quarreling or their dreams.

Her father told his children to pray for patience, for courage, for kindness, for clarity, for trust, for gratitude. Those prayers will be answered

Much more prayer is called for, clearly, but first I will take a nap.

Prayer opens on something purer and grander than mercy, something that puts aside the consciousness of fault, the residue of judgment that makes mercy a lesser thing than grace.

Well, but how deeply I regret any sadness you have suffered and how grateful I am in anticipation of any good you have enjoyed. That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.