Quotes About Prayer

Remember that whatsoever you desire, God is the most dependable provider.

Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that mystery and trust Him in the dark.

When praying does no good insurance does help.

Central Truth: Prayer is successful only when it is based on the promises in God's Word!

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

When the saint ceases to seek after holiness, purity, righteousness, truth; when he ceases to pray, stops reading the Word and gives way to carnal appetites, then it is that Satan comes.

The truth is you always grow to love the people you pray for. That's because you develop God's heart of love for them.

Lauren closed her eyes, remembering how desperate she had been this morn in Chartres, how she had prayed for divine intervention to stop her wedding. She had never expected that intervention to be riding a black horse and wielding a sword.

Dear God, Help me to trust in You, and as I do, give me renewed strength. Give me eyes to soar above my circumstances and give me a renewed passion to run in Your strength and not my own. I pray from this day forward that I will not grow faint but finish strong. Amen.

Deus misereatus mei (May God compassionate me)

My faith means everything to me. God and I talk constantly.

La noche que naciste, las estrellas cayeron. El día que nos conocimos, cayo un rayo. Mi presente, mi futuro. Mi esperanza, mi plegaria, mi destino,

I had come to the time in my life when prayer became necessary and so I invented gods and prayed to them

I paid a visit to Yasukuni Shrine to pray for the souls of those who had fought for the country and made ultimate sacrifices. I have made a pledge never to wage war again, that we must build a world that is free from the sufferings of the devastation of war.

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

writing poetry is like prayer, and prayer isn't something you have to share with other people.

For I've realized more and more with each year I've lived: There is no worthier work for the person who has been geared with the ability to see even a small part of God's mercy than to serve Him and to keep vigil and to pray for those people whose sight is still clouded by the shadow of worldly matters.

Help me, Gunnulf," begged Kristin. She was white to the very edge of her lips. "I don't know my own will." "Then say: Thy will be done," replied the priest softly.

the story of the black preacher from Chicago who was so scared on his first trip to the Deep South, he prayed, "Lord, please stay with me." And the Lord answered, "I'll stay with you, but only as far as Memphis!

Kiedy los nam nie sprzyja, w g??bi serca wszyscy jeste?my egoistami i wszyscy wznosimy te same mod?y: tylko nie ja, tylko nie ja, jeszcze nie teraz.

HOW DO YOU LIVE A MEANINGFUL DAY? When you awake in the morning, while you are still lying in bed, think for a moment: What does it mean to be awake and alive? Begin each day with a prayer; thank G-d for the new day. Acknowledge your soul and the vibrancy and fortitude it provides. Think about what you would like to accomplish that would make today a meaningful day. Train yourself to do this every morning and you will begin to see your life in a new, sharper focus.

Now in Medina, with its Jewish clans, he created the first mosque,a adopting the Jerusalem Temple as the first qibla, the direction of prayer. He prayed at Friday sundown—the Jewish Sabbath—fasted on the Day of Atonement, banned pork and practised circumcision. The oneness of Muhammad's God rejected the Christian Trinity but other rituals—the prostration on prayer mats—owed much to Christian monasteries;

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

Before we ask God for blessings, let us first ask him for vision.