Quotes about Prayer

The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.

If you prayed as much as you complain and quarrel, you'd have a lot less to argue about and much more peace of mind.

So the Eucharist -- in its sumptuous liturgical setting, surrounded by music, art, the word of God, and the prayer of the community -- does more than sustain the divine life in us. It delights us, as a foretaste of the heavenly banquet.

Jesus has entrusted to his Church the means to apply this victory—the weapons, if you will, to win the spiritual war. These are the sacraments (especially the Eucharist and confession), the Bible, personal prayer, the rosary, etc. One of the tragedies of our time is that so many Catholics have dropped those weapons

Sometimes the answer to our prayers is to become the answer to someone else's prayers.

Some have been to the mountain. I have been to my knees by the side of my bed.

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.

God answers first the prayers we should have prayed.

We are both going to pray that we may live together all our lives and die the same day.

There is a man in Bolingbroke who lisps and always testifies in prayer-meeting. He says, 'If you can't thine like an electric thtar thine like a candlethtick.

Even skeptical Dan prayed, his skepticism falling away from him like a discarded garment in this valley of the shadow, which sifts out hearts and tries souls, until we all, grown-up or children, realize our weakness, and, finding that our own puny strength is as a reed shaken in the wind, creep back humbly to the God we have vainly dreamed we could do without.

it suddenly occurred to her that that simple little prayer, sacred to white-robed childhood lisping at motherly knees, was entirely unsuited to this freckled witch of a girl who knew and cared nothing bout God's love, since she had never had it translated to her through the medium of human love.