Prayer makes coffee shops of our souls, places that celebrate and savor the presence and lordship of God in our lives. It must be unceasing and constant. It must become who we are.

Sometimes when we say “God is silent,” what’s really going on is that he hasn’t told the story the way we wanted it told. He will be silent when we want him to fill in...

Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you – From the film Sophie Scholl

Through dreams, God awakened me; through prayers, God directed me.

Prayer is my chief work; by it I carry on all else. Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of him that we are capable of in this life. It is...

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.

By then I wasn’t just asking questions; I was being changed by them. I was being changed by my prayers, which dwindled down nearer and nearer to silence, which weren’t confrontations with God but with...

As I continued to pray raggedly, prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a daily need to which I looked forward. If, for any reason, I were deprived of it, I...

Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only...

You will remember how, as a schoolboy, I had destroyed my religious life by a vicious subjectivism which made ‘realizations’ the aim of prayer; turning away from God to seek states of mind, and trying...

Strange, is it not, how even those of us who scoff at divine intervention will fall to our knees and clasp our hands the moment we realize our futures are defined by uncertainty and hazard....

…the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

In your time of sorrow, hold tight to God. In the midst of a trial and crisis, don’t let go of God. No matter what comes your way keep your eyes on God. Amen.

Some part of me broke in prayer that morning, and some part of me was reborn as I gave myself fully and completely to prayer and to God in that moment.

Prayer may be a placebo for the disease of helplessness, but placebos can make you feel better.

In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance.

That’s where thinking started, where thinking stopped, where all her prayers so long ago had dried up. She no longer prayed, nor even dreamed of changing her father. Her dreams now played variations on the...

(Prayer is) a fictitious consolation invented by those who have everything in order to keep those who have nothing contented. I belong to the bourgeoisie and I know the only reason my class bothers to...

If you are a dreamer, come in If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A Hope-er, a Pray-er, a Magic Bean buyer, If you’re a pretender, come sit by my fire For we...

Even when she was speaking, her soul was in prayer reposing on an unseen support.

I’ll pray for you.””That’s very kind of you.””I can’t spare you a whole rosary, you know. Just a decade. I’ve got such a long list of people. I take them in order and they get...

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and...

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because...

God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.

Praying for your children is the most powerful way you can care for them.

This message God was communicating to mankind, this Gospel of Jesus, was a message to the heart as much as to the head, that the methodology was as important as the message itself, that the...

The answer to the prayer of a rich man is in the hands of the poor.

Prayer is the soul’s sincere desire. Your desire is your prayer. It comes out of your deepest needs and it reveals the things you want in life.

God answers every prayer timely

My prayer life IS my life.

My little secret before I do every scene is I say a short little prayer.

We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray when there’s nothing else we can do, but God wants us to pray...

May the Lord rescue you from any calamity.

Finally, Christians were accused of being subversive, for they refused to worship the emperor and thus destroyed the very fiber of society. The apologists answered that it was true that they refused to worship the...

God blesses you when you stand up for what you believe in despite opposition.

Make prayer a top priority rather than a last resort.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.

Anytime I’m not reading my Bible or praying, I feel like I’m wasting my time. [Mark’s brother-in-law, Matt ________, speaking]

I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…

Pray to catch the bus, then run as fast as you can.

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I’ll tell you what I’d do. I’d go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods...

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.

Be thankful for all you gain. Be thankful for what you lose, too. Find a reason each day to celebrate your life.

You have been crafted with utmost care and creativity by your Creator. There is none other like you in the world.

Prayer is a path where there is none.

Prayers likewise your positive thoughts can be based on gratitude and love.

There’s only one power in the world great enough to help us rise above the difficult things we face: the power of God.