Prayer Quotes

I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.

How often I failed in my duty to God, because I was not leaning on the strong pillar of prayer.

Our Lord is the ground from whom our prayer grows and in his love and grace he himself gives us our prayers.

Pray like it all depends on God, but work like it all depends on you.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

Pray inwardly, even if you do not enjoy it. It does good, though you feel nothing. Yes, even though you think you are doing nothing.

Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.

Don’t imagine that, if you had a great deal of time, you would spend more of it in prayer. Get rid of that idea; it is no hindrance to prayer to spend your time well.

You are never more like Jesus than when you pray for others. Pray for this hurting world.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces… made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!