Prayer Quotes
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People would never begin to pray if they could not ask for earthly things like riches and health and honours; He says to Himself: If they ask for such things the desire for something better will awaken in them, and finally they will only care about the higher things.
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The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
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Prayer does not influence God. Prayer surely does influence God. It does not influence His purpose. It does influence His action.
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Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.
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A man must not stop listening any more than praying when he rises from his knees. No one questions the need of times of formal address to God, but few admit in any practical way the need of quiet waiting upon God, gazing into His face, feeling for His hand, listening for His voice.
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Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.
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We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.
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Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.
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The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.
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Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
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We prepare the ground for our prayer when we shed something which is not Christ's, which is unworthy of him, and only the prayer of one who can, like St. Paul say, 'I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me,' is real Christian prayer.
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Prayer is less about changing the world than it is about changing ourselves.
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As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.
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Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and we are given the privilege of being the channels of the Holy Spirit's prayer.
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The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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History is silent about revivals that did not begin with prayer.
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While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.
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The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.
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We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
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The ritual of exorcism is not practiced by an ordinary priest. An exorcist requires specific training and must be thought to have a personal sanctity. He can be exposed to dangerous behavior and personal threat. His prayers often cause a violent response as he attempts to shine a beam of light into the darkness.
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Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.
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Do not be misled by a person's prayers and fasting. [Instead] look [at their] sincerity and wisdom.
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The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present, all the time, in every condition.
