A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.
A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.
A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer.
All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
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.
Ask God for what man can give, and you may get it.
Ask God's blessing on your work, but don't ask him to do it for you.
Audible prayer can never do the works of spiritual understanding, which regenerates; but silent prayer, watchfulness, and devout obedience enable us to follow Jesus example. Long prayers, superstition, and creeds clip the strong pinions of love, and clothe religion in human forms. Whatever materializes worship hinders man's spiritual growth and keeps him from demonstrating his power over error.
Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.
Bow, stubborn knees!
But if it were I, I would appeal to God; I would lay my cause before Him. He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles that cannot be counted. [Job 5:8-9]
Common people do not pray; they only beg.
Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.
Do not make prayer a monologue — make it a conversation.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
Don't put people down, unless it's on your prayer list.
Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers and thrust the thing we have prayed for in our face, like a gauntlet with a gift in it.
Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. [Prayer To A Pregnant Woman]