Quotes About Prayer

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of attention counts for much in the quality of the prayer. Warmth of heart cannot make up for it.

Lieber Gott, falls es einen Gott gibt, rette meine Seele, falls ich eine Seele habe.

I pray that his lot may be a happier one in that life than it has been in this.

I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer.

Dear Lord, do for us what we cannot do for ourselves.

Worrying is like praying for something bad to happen.

They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees, with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come—it will come, if his prayer is heard—a terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy.

was now being asked by my soul to become fully and uncompromisingly self-loving for the first time in my life. It had long been my prayer. Divorce was

Bad vibes are just missed opportunities to love, understand, and communicate effectively. So pray for healing—then promptly leave. As you do so, surround yourself with the most loving and kind thoughts possible. Send caring thoughts to all approaching hostile forces—because they need it.

Also, always pray for support and then be open to receiving it. Happily, evolution is prevailing, and six-sensory people are emerging in droves. These days it's becoming less and less difficult to connect with such kindred spirits if you really want to.

Please let the press conference be short, I pray. Please don't let the questions go on too long. Please God, please let me have that scarf.

There let her pray to the one god she worships: Death--who knows?--may just reprieve her from death. Or she may learn a last, better late than never, what a waste of breath it is to worship Death.

Pray for life, my children, live where you are free to grow and season

Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breath forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God

With what can we feed the soul in the world of emptiness other than with prayer?

I try to live a faith-filled life. I'm a believer.

I pray daily, and I pray in all kinds of places. I mean, I pray in bed, I pray in the Oval Office. I pray a lot. And just different as the spirit moves me. And faith is an integral part of my life.

[Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.

Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God, here and now.

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.