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Prayer Quotes by Henri Nouwen
- Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place in which you…
- You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold…
- It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
- Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern,…
- Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something. Prayer is to enter into that activity...…
- It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
- The question is not: How many people take you seriously? How much are you going to accomplish? Can you show some results? but: Are you…
- The real 'work' of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me.
- A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or…
- Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
- Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and…
- The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
- Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can…
- Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable…
- Prayer is the breath of your life which gives you the freedom to go and stay where you wish and to find the many signs…
- One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long…
- Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
- Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
- When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
- The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and…
- the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and…
- A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness. A friend is…
- a spiritual life without prayer is like the gospel without Christ.
- Prayer is the center of the Christian life. It is the only necessary thing. It is living with God in the here and now.
- By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.
More Prayer Quotes
- Never pray for justice, because you might get some. — Margaret Atwood
- In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. — Saint Augustine
- The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of… — Saint Augustine
- There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers. — Teresa of Avila
- For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God. — Teresa of Avila
- A soul which gives itself to prayer, either much or little, should on no account be kept within narrow bounds. — Teresa of Avila
- I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer. — Teresa of Avila
- Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the… — Teresa of Avila
- Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not… — Teresa of Avila
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone… — Teresa of Avila