Pastoral Resources

Everytime someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

Music is a form of prayer.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

If we really want to achieve true prayer, we must turn our backs upon everything temporal, everything external, everything that is not divine.

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

I believe in prayer and in strong belief.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

I have only ever made one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Of all things, guard against neglecting God in the secret place of prayer.

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.