Quotes About Prayer

To regard Christ as God, and to pray to him, are to my mind the greatest possible sacrilege.

The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you.

Dear God, I surrender this thought to you, for I would see the miracle that lies behind it. Amen.

And when you pray to God regularly, irregular things happen on a regular basis.

God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!

Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God.

Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray.

Every thought of God is prayer.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

Banning prayer in school in effect made God unconstitutional.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

Some of us should learn to ask for bold things that require God.

Too often we just do what makes sense to us and ask God to bless it.

Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

I hear God as an audible voice.

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

. . . it seemed to me that where others had prayed before to their God, in their joy or in their agony, was of itself a sacred place.

[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

When you pray, you talk to God. When you meditate, you listen to God.

The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.