Quotes About Prayer

Open, Lord, my mouth to bless your holy name; cleanse my heart from all empty, evil, or distracting thoughts; enlighten my mind, enkindle my heart, that I may recite this Office worthily, attentively, and devoutly, and may merit to be heard in the sight of your divine majesty. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen." Latin

All God wants us to do is to ask him what he wants us to do, and then do it.

Jesus is not manufacturing a new idea for human relationships or the church. His prayer reflects what God's design has always been.

Mark 11:25 is talking about forgiveness as a heart attitude before God.

Adversity makes men remember God

Damit beginnst Du, mit Schweigen, mit Stille. Nach Mutter Theresa führt die Stille zum Gebet, das Gebet zum Glauben, der Glaube zur Liebe und die Liebe zur Tat. Doch am Anfang dieses Prozesses steht die Stille. Fragte sich jemand: "Wie ist es möglich, sich zu verändern?", gab sie immer eine ganz einfache Antwort: Beginn mit Schweigen.

Lose Faith. Pray anyway. Persist. We are made to persist, to complete the whole tour. That's how we find out who we are.

My mom taught us the Serenity Prayer at a young age.

I don't know how my day goes by. I start by offering Namaz and then I read the Quran.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the people do for me.

If I have another life at all I will once again beseech Allah to give me the blessing of living this life again.

Many people want 'God bless America,' but they don't want 'One nation under God.' The problem is you can't have one without the other.

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Not Forgive us for our sins but Smite us for our iniquities should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

We did not dare to breathe a prayer, Or give our anguish scope. Something was dead within each of us, And what was dead was Hope.

Better for him that each sin of his life had brought its sure, swift penalty along with it. There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.

En lugar de «perdónanos nuestros pecados», la plegaria de los hombres a un Dios de justicia debería ser «castíganos por nuestras iniquidades».

you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a friend of yours, who explained to me the wonder of youth, and you finished a portrait of me that revealed to me the wonder of beauty. In a mad moment that, even now, I don't know whether I regret or not, I made a wish, perhaps you would call it a prayer… .

O we are wearied of this sense of guilt, Wearied of pleasure's paramour despair, Wearied of every temple we have built, Wearied of every right, unanswered prayer, For man is weak; God sleeps: and heaven is high: One fiery-coloured moment: one great love; and lo! we die. Ah!

For a year she had prayed that Geoffrey might be given back to her, and the Gods had heard her prayer. They had given her back Geoffrey, and with a careless generosity they had given her twice as much of him as she had expected.

After deep prayer and meditation the devotee is in touch with his divine consciousness; there is no greater power than that inward protection. —Paramhansa Yogananda

To repeat a prayer-demand over and over again, whether mentally or out loud, with ever-deeper attention and devotion, spiritualizes the prayer; it changes conscious, concentrated repetition into superconscious experience.

We are all made in the image of God, beings of immortal consciousness cloaked in diaphanous heavenly light—a heritage buried beneath the cloddish flesh. That heritage we can only acknowledge by meditation. There is no other way—not by reading books, not by philosophical study, but by devotion and continuous prayer and scientific meditation that uplifts the consciousness to God.