Francois Fenelon Quotes about Prayer

How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.

God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder us and prevent us from listening to him

Time spent in prayer is never wasted.

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

The Christian life is a long and continual tendency of our hearts toward that eternal goodness which we desire on earth. All our happiness consists in thirsting for it. Now this thirst is prayer. Ever desire to approach your Creator, and you will never cease to pray. Do not think it necessary to pronounce many words.

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.

He who prays without confidence cannot hope that his prayers will be granted.

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.

I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

Prayer is so necessary, and the source of so many blessings, that he who has discovered the treasure cannot be prevented from having recourse to it, whenever he has an opportunity.

Were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.