Prayer isn't where we change God, but He changes us. Instead of praying for OUR desires, let's pray He burden us with HIS.
Instead of praying: 'Dear God, bring me someone fabulous,' try: 'Dear God, make me into someone fabulous.'
God answers the prayer we ought to have made rather than the prayer we did make.
Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer.
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.
Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.
Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.
When God intends great mercy for his people, the first thing he doth is to set them a praying.
Are you living for the things you are praying for?
It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain.
A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.
Do I think God is going to win football games? Oh no. I never prayed to God to help us win a game. I would pray for the safety of the players. I would pray that they would do their best. I think God will answer that.
Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls.
Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.
We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.
May our prayers today, and every day, be from our hearts and with the focus of our whole being.
He who does not love sinners cannot pray aright for them.
Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.
