Quotes about Prayer

In prayer we inhale as God breathes his new life into us, and then in evangelism we exhale to breathe God's life upon a dying world.

Inevitably, the Enemy will do anything to divorce prayer and proclamation - to stop the evangelist praying and the intercessor evangelising. Why? Because the two combined are explosive!

A prayer room is a place where we can experience peace so that we can make peace later. A place where we can accept forgiveness so that we can live our lives as priests at work. A place where we receive our Father's acceptance so that we can love even those who laugh at us later in the day.

The most powerful thing that can happen in the place of prayer is that you yourself become the prayer. You leave the prayer room as Jesus's hands and feet on earth. This is what it means to pray continually: to see with the eyes of Jesus and to hear with his ears with every waking moment.

Here's the question: Will we allow the things that break God's heart to break our hearts too? It'll mean more tears, more listening. It may even be the reason why so many of us struggle with our own personal burdens and heartaches - God is allowing us to feel the pain, to be weak and broken so that our prayers have power.

What if the call to pray is a call to bleed as well as to receive blessing?

There's little point in lectio divina without the Holy Spirit's help.

By stopping to be still in the ways described above, prior to opening my Bible, I can prime my heart to hear from God in a focused way with far fewer distractions.

Start by calling God 'Father' (Luke 11:2). That's the key to prayer.

The idea of morning and evening prayer led by a military officer was part of the Virginia in which Washington was raised.40

I like a prayer book and liturgy to guide me in my faith rather than falling back into my comfort zone of controlling reality with my learned and carefully chosen words, and without leaving it up to me to come up with what to say here and now when I just may not feel like it.

Thomas Merton's Thoughts in Solitude.