Quotes About Prayer

Gospodi Pomily: Lord have mercy.

Iglesia anglicana.

Faith is not the presence of warm religious feeling. It's the knowledge that you walk before the God who hears.

The more you read Scripture, the more you actually talk to God rather than think about fear.

Why didn't you just pray by faith?" He taught me one of the most important lessons of prayer: that prayer depended on God and his promises, not my own quixotic emotions.

You have been given amazing gifts, and I have been praying that God would protect you so you can continue to use them well.

We aim to create our own psalms in which we (1) pour out our complaint to the Lord, (2) review God's promises and his faithfulness, (3) find our rest and comfort in Jesus, and (4) let others know that they, too, can find rest and comfort. Then, when we falter, we ask for help and do it all again.

When we recount with our community God's answers to our prayers, we are laying spiritual monuments that we hope will have more endurance than mere stones.

knew something about prayer, asked Jesus how to pray (Luke 11:1). Here is where prayer really

If the temptation hooks our desires, we go public. We confess it to a friend, we confess it to the Lord, we get other people praying for us, we ask for counsel that helps us to see that the Serpent is dangerous. Above all, we remember that God's commands are good. They are intended to bless us.

do not end the conversation without an offer to pray. Ask what he needs prayer for and either pray right then or pray later and then follow up the next time you see him.

Once we pray with or for someone, we are in the ongoing story of his life, and it is an honor to be there.

The key to learning the fear of the Lord is to stay in Scripture. When you are in the Scripture, pray that God would teach you that he is the Holy One.

Nothing can have so prevalent a power to still the agitation of passion in the breast, nothing is so fit to induce a smooth and easy flow, and a constant evenness of temper, as a frequent application to the throne of grace.

Life, if we would mark it, is made up of thousands of suggestions from some unseen quarter, prompting us to duty; starting some thought of what is wise and right and just and good; inclining us to thoughtfulness, to meditation, to prayer; making the soul dissatisfied with its present course, and drawing it along in the path of duty, benevolence, and peace.

the end of your praying is not to inform God, as though he knew not your wants already; but rather to inform yourselves, to

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Lo desconocido es un océano, cuya brújula es la consciencia. Pensamiento, meditación, oración, son los grandes señalamientos misteriosos de su aguja.

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

The prayer of Jesus for Himself (vers. 1-5.) contains just one petition, with two reasons annexed. The petition is, "Father, the hour is come, glorify Thy Son;

The second reason pleaded by Jesus in support of His prayer, is that His appointed service has been faithfully accomplished, and now claims its guerdon: "I have glorified Thee on the earth: I have finished the work which Thou gavest me to do.

The lesson on prayer taught by Christ, in answer to request, consists of two parts, in one of which thoughts and words are put into the mouths of immature disciples, while the other provides aids to faith in God as the answerer of prayer. There is first a form of prayer, and then an argument enforcing perseverance in prayer.

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.