Anne Rice Quotes

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

Pray to god someone prays for me

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

Desperation compels us to pray with fervent, focused faith - especially when we have no one else to turn to. God honors our faith when we place it in him alone - with no back-up plan, no other recourse, no other way out. He hears and answers our desperate heart cry, because he loves to show himself strong on our behalf.

Dear Jesus, do something.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

I do not want to die of this disease. So I say to God: "It is seriously time for a miracle."

God, if You don't help me, I'm going to die.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

Prayer begins where human capacity ends.

Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

God, if there is a God, take my soul, if I have a soul.

People are scared to death and they're looking for something beyond themselves.

I know no words of prayer - God help me because I can not help myself.

I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

I go back to when my youngest daughter was dying. I never asked my Friend Upstairs, 'Why me?' And He's the only one who has the answers.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

For me, prayer is an upward leap of the heart, an untroubled glance towards heaven, a cry of gratitude and love which I utter from the depths of sorrow as well as from the heights of joy.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

At such times, the heart of man turns instictively towards his Maker. In prosperity, and whenever there is nothing to injure or make him afraid, he remembers Him not, and is ready to defy Him; but place him in the midst of dangers, cut him off from human aid, let the grave open before him, then it is, in the time of his tribulation, that the scoffer and unbelieving man turns to God for help, feeling there is no other hope, or refuge, or safety, save in his protecting arm.

Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world.