Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

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.

The first thing I do when I get up is pray and meditate to center myself for the day ahead. I ask for inspiration in my creative endeavors, guidance in my relationships and patience in my journey. It's a great way to get focused for the day.

I take 10 minutes. I focus on what I'm most grateful for. Then I do a little prayer for three minutes, a blessing within myself through God, and then out to my family and friends and all those I serve. Then my last three minutes are the three things I want to achieve most. At the end of 10 minutes, you are wired. Everything in your life gets filtered through that.

The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one's striving.

The big thing is that you know what you want.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

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

The purpose of prayer is the alignment of the mind with the thoughts and the will of God.

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

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.

It is not surprising that prayer malfunctions when we try to make it a domestic intercom to call upstairs for more comforts in the den.

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.

We pray pious blether, our will is not in it, and then we say God does not answer; we never asked Him for anything. Asking means that our wills are in what we ask.

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking.

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy: I'll just say we were out of town and I didn't have time to write anything.

Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things.