Prayer

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

James Dillet Freeman

Not all who go to church say their prayers.

Not all who go to church say their prayers.

Italian proverbs

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice.

William J. Mayo

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Dorothy Bernard

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Jean Paul Richter

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Charles Spurgeon

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Saint Augustine

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.