Quotes About Prayer

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

It would be all right if I could pray in this way, or in that other way, if I were just able to give You the only thing You want: not my thoughts and feelings and resolutions, but myself. But that is just what I am unable to do, because in the superficiality of the ordinary routine into which my life is cast, I am a stranger to myself. And how can I seek You, being so distant, how can I give myself up to You, when I haven't been able as yet to find myself?

The flame of my life burns low Under the cluttered days, Like a fire of leaves. But always a little blue, sweet-smelling smoke Goes up to God.

An honest conversation with anyone is a form of praying.

he prayed with them up to the very gallows if he could. 'It's the duty of any half-decent clergyman to walk into Hell itself,' he used to say. 'We're needed most where God is least.

I pray for guidance but blush when I get it.

Do you mind telling me what you pray?" "I pray for the wisdom to find meaning in the . . . her death." "And have you?" "No, Mrs. Aislabie, I find no meaning. But perhaps that's because I'm too small to see a plan so large I rarely get anything but a brief glimpse of it.

I have spoken to God so rarely that I do not think he would know who I was.

Même si nos écrits n'avaient en moyenne pas d'autre résultat que la restitution, pour quelques-uns, de cette barque salvatrice qu'est la prière, nous devrions à Dieu de nous tenir pour profondément satisfait.

The Church's objectivity is not subjectivized by the affirmation that the only framework in which the Church can remain the Church of the Lord is the framework of faith, prayer, obedience and subjection.

Ttheology is not practised apart from faith, prayer and adoration ... The whole subject matter of Christology is most intimately related to the secret of revelation ... the enlightenment of the eyes.

Theology is not practised apart from faith, prayer and adoration ... The whole subject matter of Christology is most intimately related to the secret of revelation ... the enlightenment of the eyes.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

Step softly, under snow or rain,To find the place where men can pray;The way is all so very plainThat we may lose the way.

Beyond naming you in my prayers, Thekyn, there is but little that a hermit can do for any man.

Pero la vida es una lucha continua con el mal y para combatir hay que conocer. Para vencer a un enemigo cuya arma principal es el engaño, el conocimiento pleno es la mitad de la salvación... Y el amor que se obtiene con la oración... el triunfo.

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.

To swear is to pray, to make an offering of your innermost self.

And then, despite the fact that A.J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.

O ye gods, grant me this in return for my piety.

Godly saints will always tell you that the inward witness of the Spirit is most clearly heard when you are quiet before him in prayer. It is then that his still, small voice can be most clearly heard. It is not then drowned out by the noisiness and busyness of our lives.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

I do not want God to give me what I want; I trust Him to give me what I need. The truth is, He is infinitely wiser than I am. If we always get what we ask for, I for one will cease to pray.