Quotes about Prayer

The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up.

No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose.

It was not very long before that room again knew her, often; sitting there alone, as patient and as mild as when she had watched beside the little bed. When any sharp sense of its being empty smote upon her, she could kneel beside it, and pray GOD — it was the pouring out of her full heart — to let one angel love her and remember her.

The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds, and prays that God will bless him, is in the position of a farmer who, having sown tares, asks God to bring forth for him a harvest of wheat. That which ye sow, ye reap.

Mediation centred upon divine realities is the very essence and soul of prayer.

I pray daily, not for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to recognize, embrace and enjoy what I already possess.

Pray for your needs, not your greed.

Short prayers with long legs travel far.

The woman is at the heart of the home. Let us pray that we women realize the reason for our existence: to love and be loved and through this love become instruments of peace in the world.

However softly we speak, God is near enough to hear us.

Of all the people on Earth, the prefect and the greatest Man prayed.

A man can preach no better than he prays.