Quotes about Prayer

I would rarely be in conformity with the Divine's huge, crazy love so I just prayed, Help me start walking in your general direction, and the greatest prayer, Help me not be such an asshole.

The point was to lean toward goodness, to resist less, to pray for our enemies. The point was to have a spiritual awakening of any sort that would help us live more often in kind awareness.

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox, full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools—friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty—and said, Do the best you can with these, they will have to do. And mostly, against all odds, they're enough.

This is a hard planet, and we're a vulnerable species. And all I can do is pray: Help. When

Hello, Dearest. I'm so glad it's you!" I've come to believe that this is how God feels when I pray, even at my least attractive.

They ask that we pray for their families, and for kinder leaders, and for the homeless, and people with AIDS, and people in other countries in crises of starvation or war.

We religious types, even those who detest organized religion, pray for deeper faith and a greater sense of oneness with God.

Talk to God. He loves you so much. Don't think you have to use fancy words. He's your papa, just talk.

F . . . fall on your face before Him. E . . . earnestly seek Him. A . . . ask Him to give you His peace. R . . . rest in His presence.

We have control over our prayer life, our relationship with Jesus.

Anything in life worth working for, is worth praying for.

Am I always in contact with Reality, or do I only pray when things have gone wrong, when there is a disturbance in the moments of my life?