Our Prayers Quotes Page 2

Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness.

But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.

The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve theirs.

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. The best way to respond to wrong is to do what's right. The better we know ourselves the less we'll criticize others. The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.

My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our hearts that He will never forsake us as we trust in Him.

If the only prayer you said was 'Thank you', that would be enough.

Men may spurn our appeals, reject our message, oppose our arguments, despise our persons, but they are helpless against our prayers.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

We should not pray for God to be on our side, but pray that we may be on God's side.

The value of consistent prayer is not that He will hear us, but that we will hear Him

I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.

We have taken the glorious gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end; and if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again. We've traded regeneration for decisionism.

There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon the simple raising of our minds to God, and the more simple and stripped of feeling it is, the surer it is.

Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world.

Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions.

Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but what God wants, something quite at variance with what we conceive to be in our best interests.

The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

Everything you say or allow into your eyes or ears becomes data that is stored in your heart. That data is later replayed during your prayer. If you want to know what is filling your heart, look at what you think about in your prayer. If you want to guard your heart, guard your eyes, ears, and tongue.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.

Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will.

No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

The Rosary is the most excellent form of prayer and the most efficacious means of attaining eternal life. It is the remedy for all our evils, the root of all our blessings. There is no more excellent way of praying.

You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent.

Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action.

It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

If you want God to hear your prayers, hear the voice of the poor.

If you wish God to anticipate your wants, provide those of the needy without waiting for them to ask you. Especially anticipate the needs of those who are ashamed to beg. To make them ask for alms is to make them buy it.

. . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers.

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!

Before we can pray, "Lord, Thy Kingdom come," we must be willing to pray, "My Kingdom go."

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.

Our prayers lay the track down which Gods power can come.

Like a mighty locomotive, his power is irresistible, but it cannot reach us without rails.

All the resources of the Godhead are at our disposal!

Every Christian needs a half-hour of prayer each day, except when he is busy, then he needs an hour.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear.

His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer--His grace sufficient, His promises unchangeable.

Prayer is not an agency by which my will is to be accomplished upon the earth.

The purpose of prayer is to get God's will to be accomplished upon the earth, and so many times we ask and receive not because the motive behind our asking is really that of accomplishing my will rather than God's will.

Prayer becomes more meaningful as we counsel with the Lord in all of our doings, as we express heartfelt gratitude, and as we pray for others.