Quotes About Prayer

If he wanted to pray, she told him, he should go to a church, not the library.

The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer...

Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from; The scent of these arm-pits is aroma finer than prayer, This head is more than churches or bibles or creeds.

Why should I pray? Why should I venerate and be ceremonious?

Even if Kafka did not pray—and this we do not know—he still possessed in the highest degree what Malebranche called the natural prayer of the soul: attentiveness. And in this attentiveness he included all living creatures, as saints include them in their prayers.

I'm going into battle, hope I don't get hit. Lord if your listening, get me out of this shit.

There was the mother who offered up three of her flock of sons, the Dutch surgeon who wanted to study bodies that had been blown apart, and the Benedictine monk who promised to pray for America if it would pay off his gambling debts.

When Franklin was ushered into the king's bedchamber at noon, after the official levee, Louis XVI was in a posture of prayer.

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be.

I've come to realize that the only way to deal with life's problems is to walk close to the Lord.

I believe miracles are to be prayed for, not wished for.

Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. PSALM 37:4

Bible-reading and prayer are not wrong, and God forbid that we should suggest that they are. But it is wrong to trust even in them for victory. Our help is in Him who is the object of that reading and prayer. Our trust must be in Christ alone.

Prayer does not alter that which God has determined; it never changes anything. It merely achieves what He has already foreordained.

This is a fact. But Satan does not attack just prayer; he also attacks the praise of God's children. The ultimate goal of Satan is to stop all praises to God. Prayer is a warfare, but praise is a victory. Prayer signifies spiritual warfare, but praise signifies spiritual victory. Whenever we praise, Satan flees. Therefore, Satan hates our praising the most. He will use all his strength to stop our praising.

How much in our prayers is self completely forgotten and the will of the Lord is alone the thing that is sought?

We do not see that prayer is the asking of God to fulfill His needs.

Whatever prayer is not according to God's will is utterly

Cuando sienta una carga por orar, eso indica que hay algún asunto en la voluntad de Dios que requiere su oración.

God in heaven will only bind and loose what His children

As we bring our will and thought to God His own will and thought begin to be reproduced in us, and then this becomes our will and thought. This kind of prayer is most valuable and full of weight. Let

Do we think because we have prayed and asked the Holy Spirit to reveal His mind and to work in us, that all shall accordingly be done? That assumption is not the truth; for unless we deliver to death specifically and daily our natural life, together with its power, wisdom, self, and sensation and unless we equally desire honestly in our mind and will to obey and rely upon the Holy Spirit, we shall not see Him actually performing the work.

Søren Kierkegaard, the famed Danish theologian, once put it, "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Saint Francis. "When we pray to God," he said, "we must be seeking nothing—nothing.