Prayer Quotes

Prayers never bring anything, They may bring solace to the sap, the bigot, the ignorant, the aboriginal, and the lazy – but to the enlightened it is the same as asking Santa Claus to bring you something for Xmas.

My mom, Nellie, got me a rosary at church. I don’t use it to pray before a competition. I’ll just pray normally to myself, but I have it there in case.

I have so much to do today, I’ll need to spend another hour on my knees.

Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart.

When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it’s very easy to be caught up in this world.

Those who pray from the heart do not think about the prayer they are saying, but about the God to whom they pray.

A prayerful heart and an obedient heart will learn, very slowly and not without sorrow, to stake everything on God Himself.

The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

Seek the Lord in prayer: He is the one who has called you.