Prayer Quotes - Page 35

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.

It is the opener of the heart of God, and a means by which the soul, though empty, is filled.

In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.

I don't believe our country will last the way we know it much longer unless there's a change. And we just continue this moral decline going down, and the only hope, I believe, is God. We just hope and pray that maybe he'll hear our prayers and give us some godly leadership.

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?

If peace seems elusive in your life today, commit yourself to God, commit your concerns to Him in prayer, and then rest peacefully as you trust in Him.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

It is not sufficient to pray diligently for guidance, but this prayer must be followed by meditation as to the best methods of action and then action itself... because prayers can only be answered through action and if someone's action is wrong, God can use that method of showing the pathway which is right.

It takes us long to learn that prayer is more important than organization, more powerful than armies, more influential than wealth and mightier than all learning.

The Spirit, when He prays through us, or helps us to meet the mighty "ougthness" of right praying, trims our praying down to the will of God.

Mary joins us, she fights at our side. She supports Christians in the fight against the forces of evil. Especially through prayer, through the rosary. Hear me out, the rosary... Do you pray the Rosary each day?

There are endless treasures of grace waiting for those who will make even the most feeble attempts to pray. The weakest prayers yield grace.

Every time we pray our horizon is altered, our attitude to things is altered, not sometimes but every time, and the amazing thing is that we don't pray more.

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.

He that knows how to overcome the Lord in prayer, has heaven and earth at his disposal.

Prayer can never be in excess.