Quotes about what Prayer is

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war. Votes: 3

Do you know what prayer is? It is not begging God for this and that. The first thing we have to do is to get you beggars to quit begging until a little faith moves in your souls. Votes: 3

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.... Votes: 3

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. Votes: 3

What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer. Votes: 2

Acumen Fund is my prayer in response to genocide and what happened in Rwanda. Votes: 2

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. Votes: 2

What most of all hinders heavenly consolation is that you are too slow in turning yourself to prayer. Votes: 2

Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. Votes: 2

If a minister can lead the Senate in prayer every day... what is so wrong with beginning every day of school with an ecumenical prayer? Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Our real work is prayer. What good is the cold iron of our frantic little efforts unless first we heat it in the furnace of our prayer? Only heat will diffuse heat. Votes: 2

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer! Votes: 2

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them. Votes: 2

Every sincere prayer is heard and answered by our Heavenly Father, but the answers we receive may not be what we expect or come to us when we want or in the way we anticipate. Votes: 2

I believe that what is really important is that God can speak to us. If we have the humility to approach him in prayer with the right attitude, he can speak to our intelligence directly. Votes: 2

For me, in my Christian belief, prayer is not an opportunity to manipulate God into doing what you want him to. Prayer is an opportunity to have a conversation with God to try to get in tune with what his will is. Votes: 2

I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It's universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I've learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do. Votes: 2

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. Votes: 2

Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them. Votes: 2

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. Votes: 2

To go to the synagogue with one's father on the Passover eve - is there in the world a greater pleasure than that? What is it worth to be dressed in new clothes from head to foot, and to show off before one's friends? Then the prayers themselves - the first Festival evening prayer and blessing. Votes: 2

In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away. Votes: 2

True prayer is asking God what He wants. Votes: 0

Prayer gets us in on what God is doing. Votes: 0

The Our Father is to prayer what Christ is to humanity. Votes: 0

Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer? Votes: 0

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together. Votes: 0

Patience, prayer and silence-these are what give strength to the soul. Votes: 0

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world. Votes: 0

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will. Votes: 0

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do. Votes: 0

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer. Votes: 0

For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether? Votes: 0

I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer. Votes: 0

A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement. Votes: 0

Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion. Votes: 0

What if the drive to survive was a form of faith, a form of prayer? Votes: 0

Prayer enables you to tap into God's wisdom anywhere, anytime, no matter what's going on. Votes: 0

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention... Votes: 0

If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray? Votes: 0

According to the Bible, a genuine answer to prayer is getting what you ask for. Votes: 0

Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable. Votes: 0

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. Votes: 0

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer. Votes: 0

I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for Votes: 0

Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case. Votes: 0

That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer. Votes: 0

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us. Votes: 0

I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. Votes: 0

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body and prayer is to the soul. Votes: 0

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul. Votes: 0

I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for. Votes: 0

My prayer is: I will be what I will be, I will do what I will do. Votes: 0

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that! Votes: 0

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better. Votes: 0

Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end. Votes: 0

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that? Votes: 0

Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do. Votes: 0

I think I get from my books what other people get from family or a relationship or from prayer. Votes: 0

Prayer is to the Christian what breath is to life, yet no duty of the Christian is so neglected. Votes: 0

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. Votes: 0

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make. Votes: 0

Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us. Votes: 0

See that you do not use the trick of prayer to cover up what you know you ought to do. Votes: 0

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine. Votes: 0

Prayer, in it's simplest form, is finding out what God wants to do and then asking Him to do it. Votes: 0

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love? Votes: 0

The ancient path of communion with God is knowing what He's really like. And prayer is simply keeping company with God. Votes: 0

Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society. Votes: 0

Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer. Votes: 0

By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh. Votes: 0

Trying to describe what I do in prayer would be like telling the world how I make love to my wife. Votes: 0

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #"Ž prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #"Ž Heaven . Votes: 0

Our prayer will never grow obsolete, no matter what other ideas or philosophies may appear, or what other measures may be taken Votes: 0

O believing brethren! What an instrument is this which God hath put into your hands! Prayer moves Him that moves the universe. Votes: 0

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience. Votes: 0

One of the things Satan fears the most is that you would get the revelation of what you can do through prayer. Votes: 0

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds. Votes: 0

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for. Votes: 0

Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done. Votes: 0

The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there. Votes: 0

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them. Votes: 0

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do. But when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do. Votes: 0

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer. Votes: 0

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer. Votes: 0

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips? Votes: 0

What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. Votes: 0

Prayer is not trying to twist God’s arm to make Him do something. Prayer is receiving by faith what He has already done! Votes: 0

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? Votes: 0

I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking. Votes: 0

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body. Votes: 0

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it. Votes: 0

It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action. Votes: 0

Hope looks toward the future. Trust looks to the present. Hope expects. Trust possesses...what prayer needs, at all times, is abiding and abundant trust. Votes: 0

When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer. Votes: 0

The thing to try and keep in mind, no matter what the day, is there is always something good, to give thanks to God in prayer. Votes: 0

Prayer is not the cunning art of using God, subjecting Him to one's selfish ends in an effort to get out of Him what you want. Votes: 0

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is. Votes: 0

What we call the Lord's prayer is actually the Disciple's Prayer because It says "Forgive us our trespasses" and Our LORD Jesus had no sin. Selah Votes: 0

Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do. Votes: 0

The picture is like a prayer, an offering, and hopefully an opening through which to seek what we don't know, or already know and should take seriously. Votes: 0

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance. Votes: 0

Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need. Votes: 0

Do you know what is better than charity and fasting and prayer? It is keeping peace and good relations between people, as quarrels and bad feelings destroy mankind." Votes: 0

"What is good for a bootless bene?" With these dark words begins my tale; And their meaning is, Whence can comfort spring When prayer is of no avail? Votes: 0

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be. Votes: 0

What manner of men should ministers be? They should thunder in preaching, and lighten in conversation; they should be flaming in prayer, shining in life, and burning in spirit. Votes: 0

Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. Votes: 0

Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way. Votes: 0

In the foothills of the Himalayas, one hears the prayer: "Oh Lord, we know not what is good for us. You know what it is. For it we pray." Votes: 0

Our hands imbibe like roots, so i place them on what is beautiful in this world. And I fold them in prayer, and they draw from the heavens light Votes: 0

For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me today to offer back to you?' Votes: 0

He who has a pure heart will never cease to pray; and he who will be constant in prayer, shall know what it is to have a pure heart. Votes: 0

Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into action by being of service to others. Votes: 0

What is it?" "A prayer." "For a child?" She nodded. "For me?" Another nod. "On a tree?" "Trees spend all day looking up at God. Votes: 0