Top 1200 Prevailing Prayer Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.

Prayer is spiritual exercise and every act of prayer stretches the soul.

Prayer is a gift from Almighty God that transforms us, whether we bow our heads in solitude, or offer swift and silent prayers in times of trial. Prayer humbles us by reminding us of our place in creation. Prayer strengthens us by reminding us that God loves and cares for each and every soul in His creation. And prayer blesses us by reminding us that there is a divine plan that stands above all human plans.

Prayer is never rejected so long as we do not cease to pray. The chief failure of prayer is its cessation.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

Self must be denied as to time and attention for prayer. All-prayer cannot be wielded without the expenditure of time. "A minute with God" seldom lays hold of Him. Sustained prayer is necessary. Such time may only be found by snatching it from personal pursuits, however legitimate they may be.

Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.

Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results . . . Praying is an activity upon which all others depend. By prayer we establish a beachhead for the kingdom among peoples where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying.

Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.

Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A prayer so simple and so rich; from deepest heart, I exhort all to recite it.

Because we are God's children...we can bring our needs to him with certainty in prayer.... Prayer is not some kind of heavenly lottery. Nor does the Bible counsel us to pray with an "I hope this will work"...attitude. Instead...prayer brings us before the throne of grace as children seeking the help of their heavenly Father. That's the heart of breakthrough, successful prayer-the bold confidence that we are talking to the Father who delights to supply our needs.

Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer.

St. Thomas is right. The essential prayer is the prayer of petition.

Prayer, desperate prayer, seems so simple, but it’s a step rarely taken by those in family conflict.

Faith in a prayer-hearing God will make a prayer-loving Christian.

Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.

Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

If prayer stands as the place where God and human beings meet, then I must learn about prayer.

The prayer of the feeblest saint who lives in the Spirit and keeps right with God is a terror to Satan. The very powers of darkness are paralyzed by prayer; no spiritualistic seance can succeed in the presence of a humble praying saint. No wonder Satan tries to keep our minds fussy in active work till we cannot think in prayer.

With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room, and continue in the Spirit as we go from place to place.... The prayer hour is left standing before God till the other hours come and stand beside it; then, if they are found to be a harmonious sisterhood, the prayer is granted.

It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the President's plan was for a day of prayer. I would have thought a truck of food. A day of prayer. Now, maybe I'm mistaken here and, again, I'm not a scientific expert, but isn't a hurricane officially an act of God? Isn't a day of prayer kind of redundant? Hasn't God already made up his mind on that sort of thing? So we do a day of prayer. The President has his stupid day of prayer. Three days later, Hurricane Rita hits. Somebody must have said something... something like, is that all you got?

It isn't a coincidence that prayer was commanded right after the year of sadness. The prayer was the greatest comfort.

Prayer - secret, fervent, believing prayer - lies at the root of all personal godliness.

Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

The purpose of all prayer is to find God's will and to make that our prayer

Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

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

Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

We can do nothing without prayer. All things can be done by importunate prayer. That is the teaching of Jesus Christ

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done!

One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it is the prayer of intercession. Let us peer for a moment into the heart of Saint Paul, to see what his prayer was like. It was full of people: "...I constantly pray with you in every one of my prayers for all of you... because I hold you in my heart" (Phil 1:4, 7). Here we see that intercessory prayer does not divert us from true contemplation, since authentic contemplation always has a place for others.

Prayer is not a means for us to persuade a reluctant God to do something which is against His better judgment. Prayer, rather is coming to God for the fulfillment of His will, coming to a God who delights to answer prayer.

Prayer is an investment. The time you dedicate to prayer isn't lost; it will return dividends far greater than what a few moments spent on a task ever could. If we fail to cultivate this discipline, prayer winds up being our last resort rather than our first response.

There is no way of learning to pray but by praying. No reasoned philosophy of prayer ever taught a soul to pray. We know not what we should pray for as we ought, and if prayer waits for understanding it will never begin. We discover by using. We learn by practice. Though a man should have all knowledge about prayer, and though he should understand all mysteries about prayer, unless he prays he will never learn to pray.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

The birth of the church was during a prayer meeting, not preaching, not singing, but prayer.

It is not enough to say prayers: we must become, be prayer, prayer incarnate. All of life, each act, each act, every gesture, even the smile of the human face, must become a hymn of adoration, an offering, a prayer. One should offer not what one has but what one is.

We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

To say a prayer is not enough. One has to believe that it's possible for that prayer to be heard.

Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.

Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It is not necessarily words addressed heavenward. Prayer is entering into the pain or joy of another person. Prayer is what I am doing when I love wastefully, passionately and wondrously and invite others to do so.

Persistence in prayer brings results that casual prayer does not.

If you give your life as a prayer, you intensify the prayer beyond all measure.

Prayer is the only way to amend your life: and without prayer, it will never be mended.