To think of our prayers as just causes would suggest that the whole importance of petitionary prayer lay in the achievement of the thing asked for. But really for our spiritual life as a whole the being taken into account or considered matters more than the being granted. Religious people dont talk about the results of prayer they talk of its being answered or heard.... We can bear to be refused but not to be ignored. In other words our faith can survive many refusals if they really are refusals and not mere disregards. The apparent stone will be bread to us if we believe that a Fathers hand put it into ours in mercy or in justice or even in rebuke.

My love for you is a prayer she thought. Love is the only prayer I know.

An ancient cornerstone of prayer is that our desire to thank God is itself Gods gift. Be grateful.

Replace worry with prayer. Make the decision to pray whenever you catch yourself worrying.

Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening.

I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. Ive prayed this prayer thousands of times and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book in the right hands at the right time can save a marriage avert a mistake demand a decision plant a seed conceive a dream solve a problem and prompt a prayer. That is why I write. And thats why for me a book sold is not a book sold a book sold is a prayer answered. I dont know the name and situation of every reader but God does and thats all that matters.

The people who know God wellmystics hermits prayerful people those who risk everything to find Godalways meet a lover not a dictator.

Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact our prayers bear fruit forever.

. . . you have no idea how many people there are in the world whose day could be made and their life changed for the better if someone would just look them in the eye smile and say Hello.

People who fit dont seek. The seekers are those that dont fit.