Quotes on Prayer

Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

Prayer clears the mist _x000D_ and brings back peace to the Soul . . .

Souls of prayer are souls of great silence

By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

Prayer is the way the life of God is nourished.

The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.

Hate, like prayer, changes the person involved in the activity, not the person the activity is aimed at.

I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor.

Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn.

Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

Breathing is made up of two stages: inhaling, the intake of air, and exhaling, the letting out of air. The spiritual life is fed, nourished, by prayer and is expressed outwardly through mission: inhaling and exhaling. When we inhale, by prayer, we receive the fresh air of the Holy Spirit.

I have come to drag you out of yourself and take you into my heart. I have come to bring out the beauty you never knew you had, and lift you like a prayer to the sky.

Praying and living deeply, richly and fully have become for me almost indistinguishab le. Prayer is being present, sharing love, opening life to transcendence. It is not necessarily words addressed heavenward. Prayer is entering into the pain or joy of another person. Prayer is what I am doing when I love wastefully, passionately and wondrously and invite others to do so.

In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.

When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me.

Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.

Prayer should not be merely an act, but an attitude of life.

All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.