Prayer Quotes

The way we live our lives, striving to make our whole lives our prayer, is what makes us saints.

The only thing that can bring us peace is humble and trusting prayer.

After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan’s temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he’ll have an incentive to leave you alone.

I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

Chosen soul, how will you bring this about? What steps will you take to reach the high level to which God is calling you? The means of holiness and salvation are known to everybody, since they are found in the Gospel; the masters of the spiritual life have explained them; the Saints have practiced them...These means are: sincere humility, unceasing prayer, complete self-denial, abandonment to Divine Providence, and obedience to the will of God.

Don't be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible. Stay open, forever, so open it hurts, and then open up some more, until the day you die, world without end, amen.

Be clean, work hard, be proud, and pray the way you f...ing want.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.

I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life

To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love
All pray in their distress;
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

It is impossible to overstate the need for prayer in the fabric of family life.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer.

We need good fathers in our homes,
whose hearts are full of grace,
who by their love and earnest prayers,
make home a pleasant place.

What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them.

What makes a religion false? If any religion is right, then maybe they all have to be right. Maybe God doesn't care how you say your prayers, just as long as you say them.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than over unanswered ones.

One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.