Quotes About Prayer

Prayer is the best weapon we have; it is the key to God's heart. You must speak to Jesus not only with your lips, but with your heart. In fact on certain occasions you should only speak to Him with your heart.

Life is a gift. The Lord never promised any of us permanent happiness on earth. But—and here's the saving grace—he will give us the strength we need to keep on going if we ask him.

When you don't know what to do, go back to the places, the people and the promises where you know you last heard God.

God wants to hear about our cares, not because he needs to hear but because we need to tell him.

Ask, in Aramaic, means a combination of "claim" (as in, that deed to the land is yours) and "demand." To ask for something in prayer is to simply lay hold of what's yours. You have the right, and even the responsibility to command your life.

When you do something nice for somebody, it is just like walking around a temple. It is just like saying a prayer.

Connor, prepared to sacrifice himself to save Sarah] God, I pray, give me the strength to live the next hour well.

We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answers. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God's work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.

For God, who is in heaven, is in man. Where else can heaven be, if not in man? As we need it, it must be within us. Therefore it knows our prayer even before we have uttered it, for it is closer to our hearts than to our words. — Opus paramirum , I:ix

Self-realization is the knowing in all parts of body, mind, and soul that you are now in possession of the kingdom of God; that you do not have to pray that it come to you; that God's omnipresence is your omnipresence; and that all that you need to do is improve your knowing.

Prayer is to assure you of your connection with Home, much as when you were children and you left for the day. There was that moment of panic— I'm sure you remember it— when you had to call home just to be sure that it was still there. Prayer is like that. It is calling Home.

I learned without her saying a word that there are truly many ways to pray, and lighting a candle is one of them.

Writing and prayer are both a form of love, and love takes courage.

Surprise is a major factor in distinguishing an answer to prayer from a projection of my own mental processes. When I can't believe I made up the answer myself, I have to look around to see where it came from.

Jesus said, "But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.

To pray is to open oneself completely, intimately, into the Presence that is beyond our ability to name.

are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground

Art is my spiritual path.... Art is my prayer, my ritual, my remembrance of the Divine. Art is the way I knit together the beliefs and practices that guide my life.

Dear God...Please don't let me end up in a wheelchair again. No broken bones would be a happy bonus, but I'm not expecting you to make up for my stupidity quite so completely...Whatever happens, you don't let that vampire make it out of here still moving. If he wins, it will be bad news. Any help you can give us will be appreciated. Amen.

Life is not meant to be easy, child. That is why we pray for God's strength to help us bear it.

Pray to God for guidance and take things one day at a time.

It was really hard too, because I always had a lot of feeling. You know, when I was little I used to pray to God that I'd grow up fast so I wouldn't feel anymore

The confessional writer will treat her story like a wailing wall. She kneels, and her story spills out, messy, improper. It isn't a protest or even graffiti, but her story is an offering of things that she overlooked or notices that others have overlooked. She is in danger of exposure but she remembers when she lived in hiding and that was worse. She cannot turn back now because this is how life has spun out of her, part vexing passage and part prayer.

That first phrase-please bless me, Father, for I have sinned-was so humbling and so total, Matt always felt a kind of absolution as soon as he said it