Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes

The thing that brings people to wail at a wall, or face Mecca, or to go to church, is a search for that feeling of purity.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

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.

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.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

Prayer is an ordinance of God, that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

Prayer is our essential lifeline to God's throne and heart.

Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.

Prayer thrives in the atmosphere of true devotion.

Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers.

Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em.

Prayer is God's appointed means for appropriating the blessings that are ours in Christ Jesus.

Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, he asks of thee works first and words after.

If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

Prayer is, for me, not an opportunity to ask God to do stuff for me. Prayer is an opportunity to open myself, to try and understand his will, and oftentimes it's a prayer of thanksgiving, and sometimes it's a prayer of supplication, and sometimes it is just worship.

Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday / And I get on my knees and pray.

O brother man! fold to thy heart thy brother; Where pity dwells, the peace of God is there; To worship rightly is to love each other, Each smile a hymn, each kindly deed a prayer.

Prayer means dependence on the Lord.

To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

Actions in heaven begin when someone prays on earth. What an amazing thought!

Religion is the pious worship of God.

My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him.