In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us.

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.

Through prayer, our free agency is used to admit and confess our deep desire to have God's help in our lives.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

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

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.

It is in recognizing the actual presence of God that we find prayer no longer a chore, but a supreme delight.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

I don't mean to be ungrateful but if someone's out there answering prayers, mine's not at the top of the list

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.

Teach us to pray that we may cause The enemy to flee, That we his evil power may bind, His prisoners to free.

The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

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

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

The Simple Path Silence is Prayer Prayer is Faith Faith is Love Love is Service The Fruit of Service is Peace

Prayers have no boundaries. They can leap miles and continents and be translated instantly into any language.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Meditation goes in. Prayer goes out. But they both aim for the same place of union between you and the devine.

My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Prayer must emanate from the heart, where God resides, and not from the head where doctrines and doubts clash.

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

In times of horror and torment prayer is a great thing Nobody answers But at least it stops you from thinking.

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission.

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer.

Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith.

A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds.

I'll like to tell all the people who wrote me and said a prayer for me, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. [Lat., Orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.]

The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.

The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms.

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

Lack of prayer says you've brought into the lie that life is manageable and you've got everything under control

When you say a prayer, He (The Holy Spirit) is in every word of it, and like a Holy Fire, penetrates each word.

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