Quotes about Supplication

Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive" (Matthew 21:22).

God Himself is the power that makes prayer work.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

A.C.T.S.—Adoration, Confession, Thanksgiving, and Supplication.

We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.

It's only logical that if God always answered our prayers as we wanted him to, those answers to our prayers could hardly be considered miraculous. They would only be part of a predictable system that we could manipulate, if only we knew how. It really makes God not God, but a "God" or a god whom we are ultimately able to control through our efforts, whether via prayer or via our "moral" actions designed to elicit a favorable response.

Prayer is the idea of wishing for something from the depth of our hearts and bringing that desire forward to the throne of God.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

A War Memorial was, in its very nature, a work dedicated to God. It was a token of thankfulness that the first stage in the culminating world—war had been crowned by the triumph of righteousness; it was at the same time a visibly embodied supplication that God might not long delay the Advent which alone could bring the final peace.

Kyrie eleison [Lord, have mercy on us].

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead.