Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other to let their souls blend in a soft whisper so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can as it were creep into God.

If God listened to the prayers of men all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

I have never made but one prayer to God a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.

God is looking for people to use and if you can get usable he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes and say 'O God forgive me ' or 'Help me.'

Sincere friendship towards God in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent willing being does most apparently directly and strongly incline to prayer and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.

Yom Kippur the Day of Atonement is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer introspection and self-judgment when collectively and repeatedly we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling but oh get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is and how evil you all are and then prayer will mount on wings of faith to heaven.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith and if our request is in accordance with His will He will hear us.

The mind controls so much of the body. We are much more than flesh and blood we are complex systems. Patients do better when they have faith that they're going to do better. That's why I always tell my patients and their families not to neglect their prayers. There's nobody I don't say that to.

I think you grow wherever God plants you. I hope I'm growing as a person of faith as a Christian. That should be our number one objective this journey of life. That all starts with a personal intimate relationship with Christ and then being in prayer every single day about all of those things - being tenacious about it.

From faith hope and love the virtues of religion referring to God there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

As a people of faith we know that prayer is a powerful instrument. And as one Nation under God we know that many times our most powerful tool is prayer.

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty it becomes faith and the universe is built on faith.

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains through faith in Christ Jesus will do anything.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind and one of the most important is faith which cannot be acquired without prayer.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul man cannot live in health without them.

God our Creator has stored within our minds and personalities great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

The traditional religious right's failure to restore public-school prayer or pass an antiabortion constitutional amendment has likely helped fuel the spread of the more extreme dominionist school.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience experience hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

I deepen my experience of God through prayer meditation and forgiveness.