Quotes About Prayer

I cry out to God and not people just because he created me and no one understands a person other than THE CREATOR!

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the good, and the valor of the brave

Its the thing that satisfies your mind, body & soul! Do it on bed, on a sofa, in the car or anywhere! Its called Prayer! God bless ur naughty mind.

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic?

I'm not normally a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me superman.

I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.

She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord . . . I am miserable and bitter at heart, and old fears are rising up in me so that everything I do makes everything worse.

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

Na ca mi-a slabit vederea. Te rogi atata timp sa ti se arate Dumnezeu si cand ai ajuns langa El, nu-L mai vezi.

Estoy rezando: "Que dure", y para presionar a Dios voy a tocar madera sin patas.

For Maria had given up praying a long time ago so that God would not know where she was.

When he had died, the duchess had prayed nightly to God to send her down a personality, for she had become unused to thinking any individual thought or taking any individual action.

Love is the only prayer I know.

My father says that believing or not believing doesn't matter; what is important is speaking with God.

The life of a monk ought to be a continuous Lent. . . . This we can do in a fitting manner by refusing to indulge evil habits and by devoting ourselves to prayer with tears, to reading, to compunction of heart and self-denial" (71). A life of prayer, however, was not to be artificially divorced from a life of service.

We pray as if God's chief objective is our personal comfort. It's not. God's chief objective is His glory.

Sometimes the power of prayer is the power to carry on. It doesn't always change your circumstances, but it gives you the strength to walk through them. When you pray through, the burden is taken off of your shoulders and put on the shoulders of Him who carried the cross to Calvary.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God. We get overanxious. We try to microwave our own answers instead of trusting God's timing. But here's an important reminder: If you seek answers you won't find them, but if you seek God, the answers will find you. There comes a point after you have prayed through that you need to let go and let God. How? By resisting the temptation to manufacture your own answer to your own prayer.

Prayer is picking a fight with the Enemy. It's spiritual warfare. Intercession transports us from the sidelines to the front lines without going anywhere. And that is where the battle is won or lost. Prayer is the difference between us fighting for God and God fighting for us. But we can't just hit our knees. We also have to take a step, take a stand. And when we do, we never know what God will do next.

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

Why do we mistakenly think that God is offended by our prayers for the impossible? The truth is that God is offended by anything less! God is offended when we ask Him to do things we can do ourselves. It's the impossible prayers that honor God because they reveal our faith and allow God to reveal His glory.

We give up too easily. We give up too soon. We quit praying right before the miracle happens.

The more faith you have, the more specific your prayers will be. And the more specific your prayers are, the more glory God receives.

God won't answer 100 percent of the prayers we don't pray.