Quotes About Prayer

Our providential Lord diligently cares for His beloved followers. Sometimes He will give you exactly what you ask for. Other times He gives you more of Himself to fill the void. Either way, trust that God knows what is best, petition Him with your prayers, then keep watch as He consistently cares for you.

Please, Jesus, I want him to be my son.

Holy Maker of all, I'm setting out on the task to which You've called me. But I'm small and afraid. I need to hear Your voice again. I want to be sure of my next step.

So as you come to this final landmark of prayer—your husband's feet—you'll be praying for where his feet take him on the journey of life, what paths he chooses along the way, and how he keeps in step with God.

Prayer is a means of relinquishing control of your husband and asking God to shape him into the man that He wants him to be.

While your husband cannot turn off the world's noise, you can pray he will tune in to what is helpful and tune out what is harmful. You can pray that he will raise his spiritual antennae to detect the frequency of God's voice in his inner man.

Then let us pray," Pastor Patton said firmly. Stella noticed a few townspeople slowing down as they passed by; none of the faces looked pleasant. She closed her eyes. "Dear Lord," said the pastor, we bow down before you as we stand up for dignity. Be with us and protect us both morning, noon and night. Amen.

Elisandra's lips moved in a silent prayer of gratitude. Color actually washed across her face. That was bad; that was actually terrible; but there had been a hero, nonetheless, some mercy shown, and that made the story more bearable.

Are you asking me if there is a god?' he said, still in that soft voice. 'All I can say is, I believe there is. I feel him when I sing. He has responded to my prayers countless times. He guides my actions and he dwells in my heart. I know he is there.

faithfully pray and God will answer our prayer. That's the part I was struggling with. But then he added that God will always let us know what He wants us to do. God will let you know...

My prayers are answered. No: a glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon. And there must perhaps always be just enough lack of demonstrative certainty to make free choice possible: for what could we do but accept if the faith were like the multiplication table?

We should not be afraid, when praying to God, to give expression to a definite desire, even though we are in doubt at the time we are praying whether it is really the right thing to pray for or not.

Chose to converse with your Father in Heaven often. Make time every day to share your thoughts and feelings with Him.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

I do not want to die of this disease. So I say to God: "It is seriously time for a miracle."

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

I encourage employers to permit their workers time off during the lunch hour to attend the noontime services to pray for our land.

If you think you don't have any time for prayer, and can't find any time, then ask God to forgive you... The Pope isn't too busy for his daily rosary; if you're busier than the Pope, you're too busy.

Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

As we regularly spend time reading God's Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Lord, I thank you for answering my prayers at the right time.

The best time to seek God is when it's really hard to find the time because that's when we probably need Him the most.

Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.