Quotes about Prayer

There are as many ways to pray as there are moments in life.

Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs which point out the way to a new land.

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Private prayers are the catalyst for public miracles.

However, let us give ourselves to the study of the word, and to prayer; and may the great Teacher make every scriptural truth food to our souls. I desire to grow in knowledge, but I want nothing which bears that name that has not a direct tendency to make sin more hateful, Jesus more precious to my soul; and at the same time to animate me to a diligent use of every appointed means, and an unreserved regard to every branch of duty.

the chief and grand means of edification, without which all other helps will disappoint us, and prove like clouds without water—are the Bible and prayer—the Word of grace and the Throne of grace.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

The goal of prayer is to live all of my life and speak all of my words in the joyful awareness of the presence of God. Prayer becomes real when we grasp the reality and goodness of God's constant presence with 'the real me.' Jesus lived his everyday life in conscious awareness of his Father.

None of us may ever know the true effects of our prayers this side of death. But we do know this: History belongs to the intercessors.

We need to attend diligently to the state of our soul, and to deal fervently and effectively with God about it.