Prayer Quotes

• In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Silence

• Prayer is where the cross changes shoulders.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • Prayer
  • Cross

• I want before God that everything, every thought, attitude, action, motive, desire in my heart be pleasing to Him. I ask Him, 'Keep the spotlight of your Spirit on me so there would be nothing impure or unholy in my life.' That's been my prayer for 50 years.

  

  Bill Bright
  • God
  • Desire
  • Spirit

• Prayer gets us in on what God is doing.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • God
  • Prayer

• Everything starts with prayer. Love to pray-feel the need to pray often during the day and take the trouble to pray. If you want to pray better, you must pray more. The more you pray, the easier it becomes. Perfect prayer does not consist of many words but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Perfect
  • Desire

• You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.

  

  Thomas Keating
  • Looks
  • Realizing
  • Creatures

• God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Answers

• Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

  

  Erwin McManus
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Communion

• It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room.

  

  George Bowen
  • Universe
  • Prayer
  • Room

• To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Believe
  • Pain
  • Prayer

• We must love prayer. It widens the heart to the point of making it capable of containing the gift that God makes of himself. Ask and seek, and your heart will be widened to welcome him and to keep him within itself.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Capable
  • Welcome

• We often think of prayer as a means to an end. Prayer is the goal.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Mean
  • Prayer
  • Goal

• If our bones were not sending whispers of doubt to our hearts, there would be no need for prayer at all.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Doubt
  • Hearts
  • Bones

• You can pray while you work. Work doesn't stop prayer and prayer doesn't stop work. It requires only that small raising of the mind to him: I love you God, I trust you, I believe in you, I need you now. Small things like that. They are wonderful prayers.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Wonderful

• Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.

  

  Edwin Keith Thomson
  • Prayer
  • Spirit Of God

• Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • God
  • Change
  • Prayer

• We pray for trifles without so much as a thought of the greatest blessings; and we are not ashamed many times, to ask God for that which we should blush to own to our neighbor.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Blessing
  • Praying
  • Neighbor

• The heaven had cried out for joy, and the earth had answered, and between the two the smell of the gorse rose up like ascending prayer and linked them together. Music and scent were alive once more in the world; only color tarried, waiting upon the sun.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Music
  • Joy
  • Heaven

• Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Care
  • Flight
  • Bound

• Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

  

  Georgia Harkness
  • Prayer
  • Process
  • Ideals

• The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Prayer
  • Silence

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