Francis Quarles Quotes

God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

Prayer is - listening for the still small voice of God. Listening with the "ear of our hearts."

In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

To pray is to have a conversation with Deity. This sacred and supernal communication with Heavenly Father is a divine and delicate process. This crucial communication should be conducted with great care and in compliance with sacred counsel.

It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.

God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!

Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God.

The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.

Ein einziger dankbarer Gedanke gen Himmel ist das vollkommenste Gebet. One single grateful thought raised to heaven is the most perfect prayer.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

If a man prays to Thee with a yearning heart, he can reach Thee, through Thy grace, by any path.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends. Speak to Him often of your business, your plans, your troubles, your fears - of everything that concerns you. Converse with Him confidently and frankly; for God is not wont to speak to a soul that does not speak to Him.

The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.

The Lord's Prayer reminds us that God longs for His people to communicate with Him, not just in church on Sunday, but wherever we are and whatever our need.

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

Only the prayer which comes from our heart can get to God's heart.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.

If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.