Quotes on Prayer

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word - prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

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.

I can see that "reap" and "deep," "prayers" and "bears," . . . do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

When you are unhappy, you are just coming in touch with your own boundaries. Turn the whole situation into a prayer & you will walk through it.

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.

The prayer of listening makes things simple but it also makes us vulnerable, and that is frightening. Listening makes us open to Christ, the Word of God, spoken in all things: in the material world, the Scriptures, the Church, and sacraments and, sometimes most threateningly, in our fellow human beings. To listen at prayer is to take the chance of hearing the voice of Christ in the poor, the weak, those whom we love and those whom we do not love.

Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

Whole prayer is nothing but love.

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

Prayer is the breath of the new man, drawing in the air of mercy in petitions, and returning it in praises; it proves and maintains the spiritual life.

The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.

Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which is not closed, indifferent or prey to the globalization of indifference.

Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God

Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.

Too often we treat prayer as the preparation for the work of the church. Do you not see? Prayer IS the work of the church.

May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.

Prayer is the autograph of the Holy Ghost upon the renewed heart.