Quotes About Prayer

If God does what you think he should do, trust him. If God doesn't do what you think he should do, trust him. If you pray and believe God for a miracle and he does it, trust him. If your worst nightmare comes true, believe he is sovereign. Believe he is good.

Jesus never criticized prayers that were honest, only those that were long and showy.

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.

Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. —psalm 139:23–24

Dios responderá algunas oraciones de la manera en que lo esperas. No obstante, en otras ocasiones no será así. Ese es el misterio de la oración. No podemos reducir la oración a una fórmula.

How do you think your life might change if you prayed daily a daring, faith-filled prayer of whole-life devotion to the one who gave it all for you?

What do you do when you're in the valley? You remember what God has done. When he comforted you. When he guided you. When he answered your prayer exactly the way you wanted him to. And when he didn't do what you wanted, but sometime later you realized it was exactly what you needed. And you dare to believe that what he's done before, he will do again.

He entendido que la comunicación sincera con Dios puede cambiar o no lo que él hace, pero casi siempre cambia tu perspectiva o tu actitud.

La oración te recuerda que no estás al mando y te mantiene cerca del que sí lo está.

I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.

Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his body food so he could pray and seek the God of heaven.

When we truly know God, rather than living ashamed of our past of doubting God's love for us, we can daily enjoy his grace and unconditional love and acceptance. As our faith and prayer life grows, we'll see his goodness—even in our trials—and grow to forgive as he has freely forgiven us.

Since we can't change what we can't identify, ask God to show you any areas of your life that may be harmful to you, offensive to the people around you, or displeasing to God himself.

Now, if you want to pray together about something specific, you might want to organize your thoughts by writing them down. Sharing these written prayer requests with your spouse can really deepen your relationship.

Besides," Bull said as he turned the wheel and powered the boat down, "I'll get your Aunt Georgia to start praying about your case. And after that happens, I wouldn't want to be in J-Fox Sherman's shoes for all the tea in China." Up

As a young Christian, I was praying fervently one day for guidance on a particular issue when I felt the Spirit gently interrupt. I was shocked to think I heard him suggest that I was too busy seeking his will. How could that be? Then I heard the rest of his suggestion. "Don't seek my will in this matter. Seek me—and then you will know my will." Seeking God's will is important, but in this case my focus was wrong.

One standard Jewish prayer of the day (the Kaddish) proclaimed, "Exalted and hallowed be his . . . name . . . and may his kingdom come speedily and soon." Because God was Father, his children could depend on him (cf. 18:3).

Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.

En el nombre del Padre, y del Hijo, y del Espíritu Santo. Am

You're not always going to be able to see the big picture. But you've got to know that, no matter what, you'll be okay. Keep praying.

Even a man who's pure in heartAnd says his prayers at nightMay become a wolf when the wolfbane bloomsAnd the autumn moon is bright.

We must nurture our capacity for prayers of submission. If we remain stuck only in prayers of avoidance, we are vulnerable to believing that avoiding loss is the only acceptable outcome. When we ask for only one thing, we are essentially insisting that it is the only acceptable thing. This insistence leaves us highly vulnerable to a range of Satan's temptations. We are vulnerable to engaging in all sorts of problematic behavior.

You can support your spiritual-field repair with prayer, meditation, or contemplation. Prayer sends messages to the Divine; meditation quiets the self so it can receive a response. Contemplation is like having tea with God; we can sit and stare into the Divine's eyes forever, basking in this eternal presence, and simply enjoy our own nature.

Centering Prayer is aimed at healing the violence in ourselves and purifying the unconscious of its hidden and flawed motivation that reduces and can even cancel out the effectiveness of the external works of mercy, justice, and peace.