David Brainerd Quotes

A man can preach no better than he prays.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.

Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord.

Most of the great books on prayer are written by 'experts' - monks, missionaries, mystics, saints. I've read scores of them, and mainly they make me feel guilty.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

I do devotion in the morning. I pray and I read the word.

Begin each day with God. It will change your priorities.

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

To pray well is the better half of study.

Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

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.

During the rests - pray.

I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.