Parenting Quote by Dutch Sheets

The Our Father contains all possible petitions; we cannot conceive of any prayer not already contained in it. It is to prayer what Christ…

— Simone Weil

“Prayer is a petition.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“To pray is to make petition.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Prayer is not itself powerful; it is not magic. But its power is unlimited in that the child of God calls on a Father…

— Peter H. Davids

Our prayers lay the track down which God's power can come.

— Watchman Nee

“True prayer, not just mindless, halfhearted petitions, is what digs the well God wants to fill with faith.”

— Beth Moore

“But we Christians may ask our Father for all that we need. Only, let our desires be restrained, and our prayers unselfish. The personal…

— David M. McIntyre

... so our customary practice of prayer was brought to mind: how through our ignorance and inexperience in the ways of love we spend…

— Julian of Norwich

“What we need is the power to pray.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Prayer endows us with the power to draw near to our Eternal Father.

— L. Tom Perry

“We can only please God, when we pray for his power.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“God can delight in our courage to pray big prayers without necessarily giving us what we ask. Said another way, God can say yes…

— Beth Moore