Quotes About Catholic Prayer

#1. I am not a theologian or a historian, and I feel no call to become a defender of the faith, so in my case, the search for what remains valuable focuses on language itself: Catholic prayer, ritual, the naming of things.

Alice McDermott

#2. Real prayer is union with God, ...

Mother Teresa

#3. Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.

Terence Cooke

#4. Lack of prayer is the cause of lack of time.

Peter Kreeft

#5. There is only one thing to be done," went on the old lady, "be simple and quiet. Whenever your soul begins to be disturbed and anxious, put yourself in His Hands, and refuse to decide for yourself. It is easy, so easy.

Robert Hugh Benson

#6. Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Khalil Gibran

#7. Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch..

Mother Teresa

#8. Bold courage is paralyzing fear after humble prayer.

Kenneth E. Nowell

#9. Whether, therefore, we receive what we ask for, or do not receive it, let us still continue steadfast in prayer. For to fail in obtaining the desires of our heart, when God so wills it, is not worse than to receive it; for we know not as He does, what is profitable to us.

Saint John Chrysostom

#10. I am her tribute. Survival is my gift to her.

Pittacus Lore

#11. Prayer and comfortable living are incompatible.

Teresa Of Avila

#12. Reflect carefully on this, for it is so important that I can hardly lay too much stress on it. Fix your eyes on the Crucified and nothing else will be of much importance to you.

Teresa Of Avila

#13. Healing infirmities or forgiving sins, Jesus always responds to a prayer offered in faith: Your faith has made you well; go in peace.

The Catholic Church

#14. It would hardly benefit me to hold anything back unnecessarily, when I know what I'm asking. For you to find a needle in
God, not even a haystack. A needle in a tower full of other needles.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Make us love and obey you so that the works of our hands may always display what your hands have done, until we gaze upon the beauty of your face.

The Catholic Church

#16. Turn over the rudder in God's name, and sail with the wind heaven sends us.

Catherine Of Siena

#17. Prayer is like Thanksgiving dinner. It takes one hour to eat it and ten hours to prepare it.

Peter Kreeft

#18. It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.

Pierce Brosnan

#19. I was Baptist and had always prayed, in a damp squint, for things not to happen. Sils was a Catholic, and so she prayed for things to happen, for things to come true. She prayed for love here and now. I prayed for no guns.

Lorrie Moore

#20. Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.

Martin Luther

#21. Love for our neighbours does not die the minute we enter heaven, it intensifies.

E.A. Bucchianeri

#22. We should not bear it with bad grace if the answer to our prayer is long delayed. Rather, let us, because of this, show great patience and resignation. For He delays for this reason: that we may offer Him a fitting occasion of honoring us through His divine providence.

Saint John Chrysostom

#23. The language of the Catholic Church - the liturgy, the prayer, the gospels - was in many ways my first poetry.

Alice McDermott

#24. The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer.

Pope Paul VI

#25. The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.

Georges Bernanos

#26. I've been around doing a little of this and a little of that.

Joseph Force Crater

#27. And like a fool who will never see the truth
I keep thinking something's gonna change
There's a danger in loving somebody too much
And it's sad when you know it's your heart they can't touch
There's a reason why people don't stay who they are
Baby sometimes love's just ain't enough

Patty Smyth

#28. I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes "Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen."

Emo Philips

#29. My personal style falls between casual cool and meticulous slob. I'm most comfortable in jeans, but I love fashion.

Reid Scott

#30. You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

Norbert Of Xanten

#31. Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.

Augustine Of Hippo

#32. The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer.

Liam Neeson

#33. A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!

Pope Francis

#34. Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

Jude Morgan