Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes

It is a tremendously hard thing to pray aright, yea, it is verily the science of all sciences.

Renew every day your conversation with God: Do this even in preference to eating. Think more often of God than you breathe.

Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.

The goal of prayer is the ear of God.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.

Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion.

It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a sweet and holy wrestling hour. They won by few words but long waiting.

Prayer can never be in excess.

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Of all spiritual disciplines prayer is the most central because it ushers us into perpetual communion with the Father.

Pray to God and say the lines.

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Remember to pray fervently.

You might get up in the morning and do your devotions and say a few prayers and there you go. You think you've done your connecting for the day. But you don't know how to wait before the Lord and really stop and hear from the Lord or dig deeper and walk throughout the day with the Lord. It's like sending a quick Tweet or checking your Facebook page real quick. "Hey Lord, what's going on?" But you're missing the intimacy of, "Be still and know that I am God."

There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.

Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer.... Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ.

Prayer is not an exercise, it is the life.

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.