Charles Bent Quotes

I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

Pray for someone else's child, your pastor, the military, the police officers, the firemen, the teachers, the government. There's no end to the ways that you can intervene on behalf of others through prayer.

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

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ is to humanity.

Service is the highest form of prayer as far as I am concerned.

Prayer in action is love, love in action is service.

God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me.