I don’t pray because it doesn’t work. Prayer doesn’t fix anything. Bad things happen anyway.

We don’t want to limit what God can do in our children by trying to parent them alone—Trust God to take care of them.

True love waits…

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.”~Blink

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

In order to pray like a child, you might need to unlearn the nonpersonal, nonreal praying that you’ve been taught.

If you think you are unworthy to pray, that thought is not coming from Jesus Christ. More than anything, He wants us to approach Heavenly Father, to have our prayers heard and answered.

The more you pray, the less you’ll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You’ll feel more patient and less pressured.

It is simple. Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift....

It was the courts, of course, that took away prayer from our schools, that took away Bible reading from our schools. It’s the courts that gave us same-sex marriage. So it is quite a battlefield,...

People will tell you that you’re broken. Don’t believe them. They were not the person that could help you. They have not walked your path. God has got a plan to bring people into your...

Whether you teach or live in the cloister or nurse the sick, whether you are in religion or out of it, married or single, no matter who you are or what you are, you are...

Merciful Father…. I have squandered my days with plans of many things.This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only, to live the next few minutes well.For all we ought to have...

…pray for the grace to realize that no matter where you are, you are in the presence of the Lord.

God loves to say yes to the prayers that echo His heart.

…be awake to the Life that is loving you andsing your prayer, laugh your prayer, dance your prayer, runand weep and sweat your prayer,sleep your prayer, eat your prayer, paint, sculpt, hammer, and read your...

Behind every successful woman,there isn’t just a woman but a prayerful and hardworking woman.If not every married man would be successful.

By the time we were knit in our mothers’ wombs, our lives were like open books before Him–every sentence read, every paragraph indented, every chapter titled, every page numbered. He knew it all in advance–all...

I beg you, help me, in angelic charity,Pray my efforts will reflect your mastery!

The praying which makes a prayerful ministry is not a little praying put in as we put flavor to give it a pleasant smack, but the praying must be in the body, and form the...

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

There is not in the world a kind of life more sweet and delightful than that of a continual conversation with God.

You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he’s a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done....

Prayer is in essence rebellion—rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation...

Every night I pray I whisper into a megaphone, not only so God is sure to hear, but also my neighbors, because I pray to God He’ll deliver pestilence and plague to the residents next...

Prayer is beyond any question the highest activity of the human soul. Man is at his greatest and highest when upon his knees he comes face to face with God.

I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name...

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God’s replies.

If we truly believe He is who He says He is, then we must acknowledge His sovereignty and know within our heart of hearts that what He allows to happen to us always has a...

Sometimes God’s way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

May you fall on a fork and get eaten by a cannibal.

Prayer is the open admission that without Christ we can do nothing. And prayer is the turning away from ourselves to God in the confidence that He will provide the help we need. Prayer humbles...

Rather than walk about holy places we can thus pause in our thoughts, examine our heart, and visit the wheel promised land.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor’s...

The grace of prayer is an act of seeking to communicate with divine power.

Prayer is divine.

Prayer can be a tricky thing, because there are passages that say do not doubt and believe you have received whatever you ask for and you will, but then Jesus prayed ‘Not my will by...

New rules—we needed new rules. No one opens the main doors but me. No one leaves the property without me. No one goes outside without letting me know. I had these horrible images in my...

Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life.

We cannot judge our prayer…by how we feel when we pray, but rather by how we are loving when we live.

Keep me safe, keep me from harm, keep me in your loving arms.

It is a great gift when God gives me a stirring, a feeling, a something-at-all in prayer. But work is being done whether I feel it or not.

For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into half halves – to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place to even so much as mention Him...

Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

Regarding ‘Jabez’s Prayer’, I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting sins are many, and the least of them are the fleshlier ones: the...

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say ‘I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.

Obstacles accelerate transformation

Cherish every person and all opportunities. Have no fears, no doubts and no regrets. Focus on what you can give, not on what you can get.

Prayer finds its source in God’s holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.