Prayerful Attitude Quotes

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

I have never been religious. I talk to God every day, but He's never said a word to me about religion! I think the most powerful prayer is surrender.

Pray in faith.

I pray almost every day, and you can see that I pray on the pitch. I pray in the dressing room. That is just part of my life.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer. I'm just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that's the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

Whatever happens happens. If something happens, something happens. But I believe in God, and I pray every day.

Father, show me how to praise Thee When I seek Thy courts to-day; Guide me by Thy love, and raise me -- Let me feel the words I say. Bless me on this hallowed morning, Bid my soul to Thee draw near; Teach me, and my heart shall listen -- Speak, Lord, and Thy child shall hear.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

People who pray stand receptive before the world. They no longer grab but caress, they no longer bite but kiss, they no longer examine but admire.

As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.

If I forget to pray, I can't get through the day without snapping at people.

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

God-willing and prayerfully, we are always growing and changing and developing personally and professionally.

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

His Majesty knows best what is suitable for us. There's no need for us to be advising Him about what He should give us, for He can rightly tell us that we don't know what we're asking for (cf. Mt. 20:22). The whole aim of any person who is beginning prayer ? and don't forget this, because it's very important ? should be that he work and prepare himself with determination and every possible effort to bring his will into conformity with God's will.

Everything starts from prayer. Without asking God for love, we cannot possess love and still less are we able to give it to others. Just as people today are speaking so much about the poor but they do not know or talk to the poor, we too cannot talk so much about prayer and yet not know how to pray.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian's relationship with God. It's how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they're not satisfied with their prayer life.

I pray every day.

My kids are so cute when they pray.

You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God. This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

About four days a week, I do pretty good at having a morning prayer time. But even at that, it's a rambling sort of thing. What I have learned to do better is to try to keep my mind turned toward God and ear inclined toward God throughout the day, and I think I'm doing better at that, but I've got a long way to go.

Before prayer, endeavour to realise Whose Presence you are approaching and to Whom you are about to speak, keeping in mind Whom you are addressing. If our lives were a thousand times as long as they are we should never fully understand how we ought to behave towards God, before Whom the very Angels tremble, Who can do all He wills, and with Whom to wish is to accomplish.