Quotes About Prayer

Just one thing you have to do to God is prayer and he will decide whether it is steering wheel or your spare tire.

Lower your phone bill; talk to God.

There is only one road to God which is locked with the key of prayer and you are that key.

we must expose ourselves to the Bible, immerse ourselves in its words and its teachings, and then pray for the Spirit to render it effective in our lives.

one of the first principles that any believer in any phase of his life must enforce is to honor God as the center of his daily living and to make communion with God the foundation for all his other activities.

Plead with the Lord for forgiveness and restoration. Beg him to revive your heart by his Spirit.

Sin alienates a person from God, and drives the person to live in a way that displeases him. This person will spend less time praying, reading the Bible and Christian books, ministering to others, and seeking God (v. 13-16). Sins leads a person into spiritual poverty:

Let us, therefore, first maintain our confession of faith. Let us pray, study, and build up one another through mutual instruction and encouragement, so that we may become convinced and established in the faith, and thus remain under the invincible promise of Christ.

And just as Jesus prayed for Peter, now he prays for all Christians, so that no matter what spiritual problems they face, their faith will not fail:

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours" (John 17:9).

The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective" (James 5:16).

Lord, keep my thoughts green! That is something one should say over and over again.

And the pilgrim goes on sorrowful yet always rejoicing - sorrowful because it is so far off and the road so long. Hopeful as he looks up to the eternal city far away, resplendent in the evening glow and he thinks of two old sayings that he heard long ago - the one is: "Much strife must be striven Much suffering must be suffered Much prayer must be prayed And then the end will be peace.

The real prayer is your own soul-tending. It's not the writing that needs prayer - it's you. You need to find the center that is still and strengthening. You need to deal with whatever issue is dogging you today, whether it's anxiety about your teenager or resistance to the topic you are trying to write.

St. Faustina often experienced this reality, not only during the liturgy, but also during times of adoration. In her prayer, "At the Feet of Christ in the Eucharist," she writes: Oh King of Glory, though You hide Your beauty, yet the eye of my soul rends the veil. I see the angelic choirs giving You honor without cease and all the heavenly powers praising You without cease, and without cease they are saying, "Holy, Holy, Holy!" Diary, 80

O farmers, pray that your summers be wet and your winters clear.

Prayed to the Genius of the place.

Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for new friends, and for this evening of fellowship. We ask that you guide our conversations, and that they'll be pleasing to you. We thank you for this food and ask your blessing on it, and on the hands that prepared it. In Jesus' name, Amen

By work alone men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnâni, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. The difficulty is here. Liberation means entire freedom — freedom from the bondage of good, as well as from the bondage of evil.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself.

He that sings a lasting song Thinks in a marrow-bone. (A Prayer For Old Age)

he suggested I pray to the Muse get down on my knees and pray right there in the corner and he said he meant it literally

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.