Saint Ignatius Quotes

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

Do not neglect secret prayer, for it is the soul of religion.

I speak to God every day.

I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.

Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

My hectic work schedule does not often permit me time to visit temples, but my conversations with God don't depend on idol worship. Inside my heart, I have developed and sustained a direct communication with Him.

For hundreds of millions of Americans who believe in God, prayer is our bridge between Earth and Heaven, our way of opening our hearts to the Lord. Through this intimate relationship we find peace and guidance.

Nothing is more important to God than prayer in dealing with mankind. But it is likewise all-important to man to pray.

I listen and talk to God daily.

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.

Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I pray every morning and night before bed.

It's very important to have that prayer life. It's very important to communicate always.

Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything. Unless in the first waking moment of the day you learn to fling the door wide back and let God in, you will work on a wrong level all day; but swing the door wide open and pray to your Father in secret, and every public thing will be stamped with the presence of God.