Quotes about Prayer
Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.
- Pope John Paul II
God calls us not only to know His Word, but also to pray it.
- Francis Frangipane
Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.
- John Calvin
From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.
- Amy Carmichael
The more I contemplate God, the more God looks on me. The more I pray to him, the more he thinks of me too.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
I have picked up on the terminology of Brother Lawrence, who called praying unceasingly practicing God's presence. In fact, practicing God's presence has been my number one goal for the last year
- Beth Moore
People who are close to God cultivate a personal intimacy with Him like a good gardener cultivates beautiful flowers.
- Charles Swindoll
My God, I pray better to you by breathing and walking than by talking, just as in choir I sing best when I am thinking about something else, or better still, praying.
- Thomas Merton
I pray a lot. I pray that God will show me what to do and will guide me and lead me.
- Dolly Parton
We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.
- George Washington