Prayer is an insurance policy that you can never lapse on.

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

Cynicism creates a numbness toward life.Cynicism begins with a wry assurance that everyone has an angle. Behind every silver lining is a cloud. The cynic is always observing, critiquing, but never engaging, loving, and hoping….To...

The world is my church. My actions are my prayer. My behavior is my creed.

Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.

The value of consistent prayer is not that [God] will hear us, but that we will hear Him.

I’d just like to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers, and I think that’s it.

They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.

The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but...

Yank some of the groans out of your prayers and shove in some shouts.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the...

The best time to seek God is when it’s really hard to find the time because that’s when we probably need Him the most.

These two things are almost all I want, but unfortunately, neither one is my strong suit. I am very strong on blame, and wish this were one of God’s values, but trust, surrender? Letting go,...

Let’s pray for our country, nation and for godly leaders. Pray that we the people will humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways back to God. Then our leaders will restore the ancient landmarks...

As I was wheeled into the operating room I pleaded withGod for one more day, one more week, one more month with her.

[Prayer] is the link between God’s inexhaustible resources and people’s needs…God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together.

And we pray, and we pray and we pray and we pray.Everyday, everyday, everyday, everyday…

Your own forefathers killed to have and hold the land where you were born, and sought to extinguish the memories and souls of those that were slain. What of those who prayed in the mountains...

I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.

Prayer is the main dish. Everything else is gravy.

Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself. Empty your mind of everything it...

The best formula for a prayer that gives J.O.Y:J- 1st, Pray to JESUSO- 2nd, Pray for OTHERSY- 3rd, Pray for YOURSELFMost people distort the formula by praying selfish prayers for their own personal gains. JYO...

Many voices ask for our attention. There is a voice that says, ‘Prove that you are a good person.’ Another voice says, ‘You’d better be ashamed of yourself.’ There also is a voice that says,...

The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you. Let your communication with him be controlled by your committment.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

I just remembered a time when to warm up my spirit I prayed: movement is spirit. Prayer was a means of mutely and hidden from others reaching myself. When I prayed I achieved an emptiness...

As a mother, you need to remember that a loving and compassionate God is one hundred percent aware of your child’s situation.

Evening and morning and at noon will I pray” (Psalms 55:17). When time is really wanted, time can always be found.

He would pray…for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.

We do not pray in order to provoke God into action. If this is our view of prayer, then we are no different to the prophets of Baal who felt they had to manipulate their...

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

The padres set great store by addressing prayer to personal gods: ‘Genuine prayer exists only in religions in which there is a God as a person and a shape and endowed with a will.’That was...

Prayer is an act of worship to God.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

If we allow our “high creativity” to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in line at the super market. Or we can be lost in awe at all the people...

Don’t neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life.

When we infuse our actions with a focus on God and on the many blessings we receive in even the most mundane moments of our lives, we create sacred rituals that bring a sense of...

The secret prayer chamber is a bloody battleground. Here violent and decisive battles are fought out. Here the fate of souls for time and eternity is determined, in quietude and solitude.

there is a God, there always has been. I see him here, in the eyes of the people in this [hospital] corridor of desperation. This is the real house of God, this is where those...

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I...

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

Stay in church, stay in prayer, stay in the Word, and stay in fellowship with other believers.

It is true, as John Bunyan said, that God infinitely prefers a heart without words to words without a heart when we pray.

I told him I had once lost everything I had, too, and that I think that can be God’s way of building walls around us to force us to look up at Him.

Prayer is a connection from your heart with a force that is powerful beyond measure, loves unconditionally and impartially, and embraces you whenever you turn to it.

A Prayer for Daily InsightOpen my eyes, God. Help me to perceive what I have ignored, to uncover what I have forgotten, to find what I have been searching for. Remind me that I don’t...

O Divine Poesy, goddess, daughter of Zeus, sustain for me this song of the various-minded man who, after he had plundered the innermost citadel of hallowed Troy, was made to stay grievously about the coasts...

If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers,then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me.

Talking to God should be part of every aspect of life, in times of peace as well as in every battle.