Answers Quote by Thomas S. Monson

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

— Charles Spurgeon

He prays well who is so absorbed with God that he does not know he is praying.

— Saint Francis de Sales

He prays best who does not know that he is praying.

— Anthony of Padua

Nothing is too small a subject for prayer, because nothing is too small to be the subject of God's care.

— Henry Thomas Hamblin

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand;…

— Anonymous

Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.

— Simone Weil

He who is unable to spend a long time together in prayer, should often lift up his mind to God by short prayers.

— Philip Neri

To talk of prayer after admitting he professed no faith was, in my opinion, a breach of common courtesy. In this sense, he did…

— Kenzaburo Oe

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

— Richard Baxter

Prayer is not what you do to get God's attention because you are already God's attenttion

— Utia

Man in his effort to pray and receive guidance actually enhances his separation from who he really is and what he is reaching for.…

— Esther Hicks

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

— Anonymous