Prayerfulness Quotes

It's very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.

To be present is to be prayerful.

Prayer is the great gift which our Eternal Father has given us by which we may approach Him and speak with Him in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Be prayerful. You cannot make it alone. You cannot reach your potential alone. You need the help of the Lord.

That clerical celibacy doesn't guarantee asceticism is obvious, any more than attending Mass guarantees prayerfulness (trust me on that one). But it preserves the call even when the system is corrupted.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

When I wake up, I immediately pray. When I go to sleep, I pray. Honestly, a prayer every second, in every breath. I suggest the whole world to do it. Prayer is amazing.

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

I ought to pray as much as God's on my mind, because then I'd pray a lot. All I can tell you is God is real, and so that infuses everything.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

What a marvelous and wonderful thing is #‎ prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in #‎ Heaven .

Be grateful, be smart, be clean, be true, be humble, be prayerful.

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

Remember, Christ's scholars must study upon their knees.

The way to be anxious about nothing is to be prayerful about everything.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don't pray regularly enough.

First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do because it has something to do with your mind.

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Professionals who are prayerful and productive are indispensable!

I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost can use men of prayer, men mighty in prayer. The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans, but men, men of prayer.

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.