Quotes About Prayer

Pray to God: It's all right if you don't love me, but please let me love you!

The one thing you absolutely need is the one thing you can never lose: God's presence and love for you. Just have to talk to him.

I want to reconcile myself with heaven, I want to love, I want to pray, I want to believe in good.

Before you go to bed tonight ask yourself one thing, "How much junk food did I eat and drink today?"...then say your prayers. -Johnny The Walker

A bubble of giggles had started to build in my chest and I pleaded with some unseen deity to keep them under control.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is to life.

Being sensible that I am unable to do any thing without God's help, I do humbly entreat Him, by His grace, to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to His will, for Christ's sake.

The good Lord grant, that false religion may cease, and true religion prevail through the earth!

Being sensible that I am unable to do anything without God's help, I do humbly entreat him by his grace to enable me to keep these Resolutions, so far as they are agreeable to his will, for Christ's sake.

Oh, that God would purge away my dross, and take away my tin, and refine me seven times.

Till you have savingly believed in Christ, all your desires, and pains, and prayers lay God under no obligation;

The Scripture also speaks plainly of such a knowledge of the word of God as has been described, as the immediate gift of God, Psal. cxix. 18: "Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law." What could the Psalmist mean when he begged of God to open his eyes?

God is the fountain of all blessing and prosperity, and he will be sought to for his blessing. I would therefore advise you not only to be constant in secret and family prayer, and in the public worship of God in his house, but also often to assemble yourselves in private praying societies.

When they pray, what do they say to God?

One of the ways over the years that the church has severely weakened corporate prayer is that we let prayer be about the people there, rather than about God. We

I believe the most significant thing that is lost in a church that does not have corporate prayer is faith. There is simply no expectation that God will do the miraculous. One of the main reasons most churches are stagnant and do not see God at work in miraculous ways in their midst is that most churches and individuals do not know what it is to pray in faith anymore. But faith grows as we pray together.

Sing it like the midnight wind, Sing it like a prayer; Sing it on to the way to hell, Them blues'll take you there. —Oren Morse, Dead Man's Song

If you end up doing nothing but praying we will be living in segregation two hundred or three hundred years from now … God will never allow prayer to become a substitute for working intelligence.

Aidan laughed for the joy of the frog orchids. He cried, too, for their beauty. His melancholy was cured. And a prayer was answered that he hadn't been able to pray.

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.