Quotes About Prayer

The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.

We must remain in love and develop in love; that must be the compelling force in our lives. It is possible to love everyone. When you sense you lack love, you must quite simply pray.

I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

Yes," I said, "for the love of God!

A lot of trouble about prayer would disappear if only we realized - really realized - that we go to pray not because we love prayer, but because we love God.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.

Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.

We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free.

With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.

The love that I pray every day is manifest through me. Not because I'm a loving person, but because the God that I serve loves everybody.

I was also told that there is no greater prayer than that of a mother for her children. These are the purest prayers because of their intense desire and, at times, sense of desperation. A mother has the ability to give her heart to her children and to implore mightily before God for them.

Now we lay Picky-picky down to sleep. We pray thee, Lord, his soul to keep. Thy love stay with him through the night and wake him with the morning light.

It takes endurance to get on your knees and stay there until God supernaturally ignites a fresh thought in your mind.

God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father—authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly. I heard a man do this once when I least expected it.

of our prayer and meditation.

Prayer is seeing answers and direction in life. Meditation is listening for answers from a Higher Power and developing the ability within ourselves to accept the answers.

Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to tell the difference.

Sunday school...Bible study...prayer meetings. Now that's just too much church. Ain't nobody so full a sin they need that much church.

No Muslim, I felt certain, ever thought of Allah as his father. Since childhood, I had been told that the surest way to know about Allah was to pray five times a day and study and think on the Quran. Yet Dr. Santiago's words came to me again. "Talk to God. Talk to Him as if He were your father.

Our prayers are vital to our Lord. He works through them.

Believing prayer will save the sick man; the Lord will restore him and any sins that he has committed will be forgiven....Tremendous power is made available through a good man's earnest prayer...

God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality.