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My parents didn’t raise me to ask God for blessings or benefits. For guidance, yes. For the strength to do the right thing, yes. Not for a winning lottery number, not for love or health, or happiness. Prayer is not a gimme list; God isn’t Santa Claus.

Emmanuel D'Alzon

Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.

The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God’s law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.

Oswald Chambers

Don’t forget to pray today because God did not forget to wake you up this morning.

Craig Groeschel

Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.

Debbie Macomber

Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.

George MacDonald

O Lord, I have been talking to the people;Thought’s wheels have round me whirled a fiery zoneAnd the recoil of my word’s airy rippleMy heart unheedful has puffed up and blown.Therefore I cast myself before thee prone:Lay cool hands on my burning brain and press From my weak heart the swelling emptiness.

The people who know God well—mystics, hermits, prayerful people, those who risk everything to find God—always meet a lover, not a dictator.

Haven’t my past sermons taught you anyt

Prayer is in essence rebellion—rebellion against the world in its fallenness. Prayer is the undying refusal to accept as normal what is pervasively abnormal. It is the refusal of every agenda, every scheme, every interpretation that is at odds with the norm as originally established by God.

Kandathil Sebastian

There is no fixed formula for prayer. It has to be spontaneous, sincere, and affectionate. It is an over pouring of human spirit to God