Quotes About Prayer

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

The more I grow in Christ the less my prayers have to do with asking God and have instead to do with communing with God.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

After breakfast I went back to bed, but for the longest time, I could not sleep. I stared at Clarice's shams and prayed and prayed and prayed. I had been raised to believe that prayer could move mountains, if only you had faith the size of a mustard seed. "Mountains be damned," I whispered to God. "I need a body moved.

She spoke with all the authority vested in her by her flea-market prayer beads and her lotus-flower tramp stamp.

Lincoln told a story of an Irish sailor who had been overtaken at sea by a heavy storm. The sailor thought he ought to pray, but didn't know how. So he fell to his knees and said, "Oh Lord! You know as well as meself that it's seldom I bodder ye, but if ye will only hear me and save me this time, bedad it will be a long time before I bodder ye again.

The heart is a fist. It pockets prayer or holds rage.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the sweet earth's flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree.

Every night, as we sat down together at the table, I still took Jim's hand and closed my eyes before we lifted our forks, our silent prayer." "There was no need to ask what we prayed for, though I would add three words to the end of it." "Remember this moment.

Keep a Strong Network of Prayer Guardian of my soul, guide me on my way today. Keep me safe from harm. Deepen my relationship with you, your Earth, and all your family. Strengthen your love within me that I may be a presence of your peace in our world. Amen

I scarcely possess myself at all it seems to me - as if my self was mortgaged long ago - to whom I know not - the higher spirits, I would hope - but it may be, alas, the Devil. I pray not. But it would explain a good deal.

God don't always answer our prayers the way we want, Jarena. Ain't nothing in the Bible what promises He's gonna give us whatever we pray for, but that's where trust comes in—you gotta trust God knows better than you.

Oh, good Lord Jesus, I prayed, preserve me from this joking of God. Grief and trouble were all bad enough. But joking? It seemed altogether unfair, to me.

Delight in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Pure prayer is not manipulation of God; it is relationship with God. It goes far beyond asking and starts enjoying His presence.

When we pray as the Scriptures teach us to pray, we learn that prayer is a relationship of dependence. It is a child communicating with his or her heavenly Father.

Prayer is talking to the Father, not simply because we are confused or confounded, but because we are lonesome for Him.

The panorama of God's provision in prayer is staggering. There is absolutely nothing in the realm of our anxieties that should be withheld from God.

Prayer is an activity. It is not a spectator sport. Listening to another pray is not prayer. Commiserating with your misery is not prayer, either. Prayer demands participation in communicating with God. It demands involvement, and the Scriptures marvelously involve us in prayer.

I'm told I was born at dawn. The priest in the church, the maulvi in the mosque, the Hindu monks in the dharamshala prayed for me. An early overdose of religion, which might explain why I turned out to be an atheist.

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.