Quotes about Prayer
Become more accepting. With every interaction, surrender any tendency to judge another person. Pray for a more accepting heart.
— Marianne Williamson
The principal means of acquiring an ardent love of Christ are mental prayer, Communion, mortification, retirement.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.
— Marianne Williamson
When we can play with the unself-conscious concentration of a child, this is: art: prayer: love.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune in to ours.
— Marianne Williamson
We have the freedom to pray and the freedom to love the God of our heart. And we have been forgiven by the only one who could condemn us. We are truly free.
— Max Lucado
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.
— Michael Smith
May God bless the United States of America and all who call it home.
— Bill Clinton
It takes endurance to get on your knees and stay there until God supernaturally ignites a fresh thought in your mind.
— Bill Hybels
God doesn't want us to pile up impressive phrases. He doesn't want us to use words without thinking about their meaning. He wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father—authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly. I heard a man do this once when I least expected it.
— Bill Hybels
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find.' If you know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give to those who ask him!" My mind filled with
— Ted Dekker
so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend so much time on petition. I saw that it is indeed more worthy of God and more truly pleasing to him that through his goodness we should pray with full confidence, and by his grace cling to him with real understanding and unshakeable love, than that we should go on making as many petitions as our souls are capable of.
— Julian of Norwich