Walter Brueggemann Quotes

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important - honoring God.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn't do any of this. God did. I don't have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.

In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.

Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

You're not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something. You're either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.

Every day I'm trying to be more humble and how do you do that? I guess, every day, we have mass. Every day, I pray the rosary. That's what I do.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.

God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart.