Quotes About Prayer

I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.

You could probably go three or four months without the word 'God' coming from my dad's mouth; Mum would pray for a parking space.

I am trying to get closer to God.

Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.

The turning of the charkha in a lifeless way will be like the turning of the beads of the rosary with a wandering mind turned away from God.

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.

People are telling me they're praying for me. They're proud of me. They're thankful for the things I've said in the mainstream media. I have to give the glory to God for that.

Once we truly understand that God's will is that we be happy, we no longer feel the need to ask for anything other than that God's will be done.

Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

Finally, I learned that we shouldn't seek answers as much as we should seek God.

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

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

The goal is glorifying God by drawing circles around the promises, miracles, and dreams He wants for you.

God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.

Christians make enlightened decisions, for they talk with God.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching for.

To pray is, first of all, to let one's mind be empty. It is to cast aside for a while "the self" that has existed until now, letting only God live in one's heart.

Before we can pray for God's blessing, we should ask ourselves if our disobedience could hinder his blessing.

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.