Quotes About God

Prayer is the atmosphere of revelation, in the strict and central sense of that word. It is the climate in which God's manifestation bursts open into inspiration.

Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has been crucified with him."

God's first line of defense - and offense - for every situation is prayer.

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

Prayer consists simply in giving to God all the careful attention of which the soul is capable.

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

Jesus' pattern prayer, which is both crutch, road, and walking lesson for the spiritually lame like ourselves, tells us to start with God: for God matters infinitely more than we do.

Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded.

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

You must pray...without prayer, all the schooling in the world will not produce the effect God wants homeschooling to give.

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Not only do our prayers please God, the Holy Spirit uses them to accomplish heaven's purpose on earth.

The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

I have always been a firm believer in God and the power of prayer, though to be honest, my faith has made for alist of questions I definitely want answered after I'm gone.

The first purpose of prayer is to know God.

As a people of faith, we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God, we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.

We can be dry as dust, distracted and insensible to God's presence. Still we can pray...and if we make even the smallest gesture of availability he will be there.

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.