Quotes About Prayer

If he was going to find what he was seeking, he'd have to look, it was that simple. "Show me, Lord," he prayed aloud. "Lead me there and open my heart to Your wisdom….

He said what his dad said when he couldn't pray, when his thoughts were too jumbled, when he couldn't think straight: 'Jesus'.

God our Father, Lord and Savior, thank you for your love and favor, bless this food and drink we pray, and Irene who shares with me today. Amen.

I believe that's when God first started speaking to my heart--the very day I started speaking to His!

I have stretched in my spiritual practice to think and pray not only as a Christian, but as a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu, a Buddhist, a Native American, an atheist, a post-theist. I try on different hats as I light my candle, and while my thoughts might change or my prayers

forgetting that the one we are speaking with is a person, not a factory for granting wishes. He invites us to pray so we will engage him in conversation, and through conversation, get to know him.

In some instances we saw how God had changed our requests, transformed our desires, and then given us things that we didn't know we wanted until he placed them in our hands.

God is very present when two or three get together in his name. I've learned that God is pleased to give us the desires of our hearts, if at times he must change our hearts first.

Hij heeft gebeden en gesmeekt. Hij heeft nachtenlang op zijn knieën gelegen. Het heeft niet geholpen. Dat rampzalige stuk ellende daarboven is zo doof als een rotsblok.

She closed her eyes and shook her head. I was fairly certain she was praying—whether it was for strength or a vial of untraceable poison, I wasn't certain.

The epic poet is all taken up with what he called klea andron, "glorious deeds of men," of individual heroes; and what these heroes themselves ardently long and pray for is just this glory, this personal distinction, this deathless fame for their great deeds.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

God," Louie prayed as he walked, "You know I don't want to do that, so if You want me to go to Japan, please make it very clear. I'm a new Christian. You'll have to give me a swift kick in the pants so that I know it's really You.

Only God can bring about the miracle, the rebirth. It is my job to love her, to pray for her, and to leave the rest to Him.

Really, there was only one sensible thing to do. Stay the course. Pray it through, day by day, minute by minute. The Lord had an answer and it would surely come. (p. 203)

The Bible says if you pray for wisdom, God will give it to you!

God was listening to us." "He's always listening to us!

God already knows who did this, after all. If we pray for wisdom, He will give it to us. That's what the Bible says. So pray for wisdom!

I thought back to that precious moment ... when he'd first pulled me into his arms. How strong I'd felt. That same feeling of strength had washed over me afresh when Twila and the other Splendora sisters prayed with me. And now, as I watched my parents embrace, I realized the truth: there really is strength in numbers. No matter what I faced in this life, I could handle it with the people I loved surrounding me.

After discussing the importance of the Tuesday workload...] "...'Anyway, I spend a lot of time praying. And my knees are calloused.' ... 'I've spent a lot of time doing the same, ' I said as the light changed. 'That's the only thing that gets me through--on Tuesday's and every other day of the week.

Now I lay me down to sleep. I pay the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pay the Lord my soul to take.

I used to feel I could hide inside my practice, that I could simply sit and contemplate the raging anger of a place like this, seeking inner peace through prayers of compassion. But now I believe love and compassion are things to extend to others. It's a dangerous adventure to share them in a place like S.Q. Yet I see now that we become better people if we can touch a hardened soul, bring joy into someone's life, or just be an example for others, instead of hiding behind our silence.

It could be said that he didn't make time to enter prayer. Rather, he made time for the sake of others to come out of it.

Sir Walter Raleigh once remarked, "the art of magic is the art of worshipping God.