Quotes About Faith

Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.

We are never more like Christ than in prayers of intercession.

Now let me burn out for God.

There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

Some people pray just to pray and some people pray to know God.

Our true character comes out in the way we pray.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything!

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.

Poetry to me is prayer.

Some men's prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

I enjoy heaven already in my soul. My prayers are all converted into praises.

Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.

Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.

Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.

Prayer is, for me, like that - a state of being together with God. It's not usually triggered by liturgy or special needs. It's more like what the Bible instructs us to do: Pray without ceasing.

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

If you find your life of prayer to be always so short, and so easy, and so spiritual, as to be without cost and strain and sweat to you, you may depend upon it, you have not yet begun to pray.

Vocations are born in prayer and from prayer; and only in prayer can they persevere and bear fruit.

We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.