Quotes about Prayer
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
— Mother Teresa
Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.
— Stormie Omartian
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
— John Calvin
Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.
— Laurence Sterne
It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.
— AW Tozer
If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.
— Mother Teresa
You're never without hope, because you're never without prayer.
— Max Lucado
The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Let us make of our homes sanctuaries of righteousness, places of prayer, and abodes of love, that we might merit the blessings that can come only from our Heavenly Father.
— Thomas Monson
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
— Pope John Paul II
If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.
— Charles Spurgeon
I've practiced centering prayer. I've contemplatively prayed. I've prayed liturgically... I've benefited from each, and I still do. In ways you'll see, elements of each style are still with me.
— Larry Crabb