Quotes About Love

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

The impression that a praying mother leaves upon her children is life-long. Perhaps when you are dead and gone your prayer will be answered.

Prayer if it is real is an acknowledgment of our finitude, our need, our openness to be changed, our readiness to be surprised, yes, astonished by the "beams of love."

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

The efficacy of our prayers depends on how much we care for one another.

God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

Real prayer comes not from gritting our teeth but from falling in love.

Prayer is like a great love. When you start dating the silence can be awkward, but as you grow to know each other you can sit in silence for hours and just being with each other is a great comfort.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!

May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

Prayer gives us a pure heart and a pure heart can do much.

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

Prayer involves transformed passions. In prayer, real prayer, we begin to think God's thoughts after Him: to desire the things He desires, to love the things He loves, to will the things He wills.

I'm just one of many moms who will say an extra prayer each night for our sons and daughters going into harm's way.

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.

Prayer is the human response to the perpetual outpouring of love by which God lays siege to every soul.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.