Quotes About Prayer

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Prayer is naught but a rising desire of the heart into God by withdrawing of the heart from all earthly thoughts.

When God is about to do a great work, He pours out a spirit of supplication.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

Do I pray that the Lord gives me the desire to do his will, or do I look for compromises because I'm afraid of God's will?

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe.

Bidden or unbidden, God is present.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God - as I read in the word, you're supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

He who will pray to God eagerly will see Him.

Your worship is not a gift from you to God. It is a gift from God to you.

Pray to God and say the lines.

A tear is enough water to float a desire to God.

If you don't feel like praying, pray to God to give you the desire.

I'll tell you the only way to survive: Ask God to place a semi-permeable shield around your heart: One that only allows what He loves to enter.

We get caught in our boxes-but when we pray outside of them, ask God, the impossible CAN be done.

Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation.

As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense. [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum, Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.

A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands.

You have to be humble when you're dealing with God.

I'll always say my prayers...and if God doesn't answer them at once I shall know it's because He's planning something better for me.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up