Quotes About Prayer

Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

The thing to try and keep in mind, no matter what the day, is there is always something good, to give thanks to God in prayer.

If we really knew what God had for us, we would pray more.

she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn't breathe, God would grant her another day

Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.

When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia.

Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within.

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.

Your requests change history because your prayers change God!

Don't face the day until you've faced God.

When you kneel in prayer, don't give God orders, just report to your Commander in Chief for duty.

If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things.

Real prayer is union with God.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.

Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.

I believe in God, and I'm a Christian.

Don't be afraid to ask God for forgiveness. He never tires of forgiving us. God is pure mercy.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

The whole idea of the prayers of the saints is that God's holiness, God's purpose, God's ways may be brought about irrespective of who comes or goes.