Quotes about Praying

The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. A mood nearly always has its seat in the physical condition, not in the moral.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

the spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing—and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness.

Later, when I had returned to Jerusalem and was praying at the temple, I fell into a trance

Every scene of heaven in the Bible shows us a vision of the Church praying together and singing together and praising together.

So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was fervently praying to God for him.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

We should be encouraging them, lifting them when they've fallen, celebrating when they succeed, praying when they're struggling, urging them forward. That's what it means to be a people builder.

I can see three ways to a truly compassionate fatherhood: grief, forgiveness, and generosity. Grief is the discipline of the heart that sees the sin of the world, and knows itself to be the sorrowful price of freedom without which love cannot bloom. I am beginning to see that much of praying is grieving. Grief allows me to see beyond my wall and realize the immense suffering that results from human lostness.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,