Asking Quote by Margaret Silf

It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is…

— Thomas Merton

Prayer does not mean asking God for all kinds of things we want, it is rather the desire for God Himself, the only Giver…

— Sadhu Sundar Singh

None of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves…

— Thomas Merton

I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as…

— Henri Nouwen

Our prayers must not be efforts to bend God to our will but to yield ourselves to His.

— Catherine Marshall

I know at times we feel that perhaps in our prayers we ask too much. Or possibly we feel something isn't important enough to…

— Ronald Reagan

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

— Bill Johnson

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesnt want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

— Bill Johnson

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

— Martin Luther

To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.

— Francois Fenelon

If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we…

— Madeleine L'Engle

God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in…

— Charles Stanley