Spiritual Quotes

Prayer

...when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. —Matthew 6:6 (KJV)

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? —Matthew 7:7–11 (KJV)

And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. —Mark 11:22–24 (KJV)

...with God all things are possible. —Mark 10:27 (KJV)

And in that day ye shall ask me nothing. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you.
Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. —John 16:23–24 (KJV)

Pray without ceasing. —I Thessalonians 5:17 (KJV)

The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer. —Psalms 6:9 (KJV)

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. —Soren Kierkegaard

Everything which we hold in our consciousness for any length of time becomes impressed upon our subconsciousness and so becomes a pattern which the creative energy will weave into our life and environment. This is the secret of the wonderful power of prayer. —Charles Haanel, The Master Key System

We know that the universe is governed by law; that for every effect there must be a cause; and that the same cause, under the same conditions, will invariably produce the same effect. Consequently, if prayer has ever been answered, it will always be answered if the proper conditions are complied with. This must necessarily be true. Otherwise, the universe would be a chaos instead of a cosmos. The answer to prayer is therefore subject to law and this law is definite, exact, and scientific. —Charles Haanel, The Master Key System

Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and spirit with spirit can meet,
Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet. —Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Higher Pantheism"

Above all practice the presence of God in prayer. Divine Mind has given us all potentialities, in prayer we recognize it as the source of these, and with a right understanding of our relation to it our soul grows great with infinite capacity, all potentiality. “With God all things are possible.” “All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine.” —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

We have been so persistently taught that prayer consists in asking God for some human need that we have lost sight of our spiritual identity and have become a race of praying beggars. God is Spirit in whom we “live, and move, and have our being.” We are the offspring of this Spirit and can make conscious contact with it by turning our attention away from material things and thinking about Spirit. As we practice this kind of prayer our innate Spirit showers its life energies into our conscious mind and a great soul expansion follows. —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

What we need to know above all is that there is a place within our soul where we can consciously meet God and receive a flood of new life into not only our mind but also our body. This understanding shows us that prayer is more than asking God for help in this physical world; it is in its highest sense the opening up in our soul of an innate spiritual umbilical cord that connects us with the Holy Mother, from whom we can receive a perpetual flow of life. —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

Our most effective prayers are those in which we rise above all consciousness of time and space. In this state of mind we automatically contact the Spirit of God. Indeed when we elevate our consciousness to that of Jesus Christ, the God presence becomes as meaningful to us as it was to Him. It is in this state of at-one-ment that we truly become aware of His sublimity and power. —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

Many good people think that God is a person located in a place in the skies called heaven. They pray to Him for what they want and are satisfied. This...is not direct communion of the Father and the Son, the communion with reference to which Jesus said, “I and the Father are one.” We must have this more intimate acquaintanceship or communion with creative Mind if we are in all ways to do His will. —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

Quietly entering the inner chamber within the soul, shutting the door to the external thoughts of daily life, and seeking conscious union with God is the highest form of prayer we know. —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

When man turns wholeheartedly to God, the prayer of faith brings forth abundantly. Healing currents of life are freed and flow into and through soul and body, healing, redeeming, uplifting the whole man. Since the prayer of faith is the activity of divine love, let us pray without ceasing, knowing that God hears and grants our petitions. —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

In prayer, attention is the concentration of the mind upon a statement of Truth. Attention is focalizing the I AM or inner entity upon a word of prayer, until the inner meaning is realized and the soul is aware of a definite spiritual uplift. As a lens focalizes the sun’s rays at a given point—and we know how intense that point of light may become—so concentration focalizes the mind on a single idea until it becomes manifest and objective. —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. Prayer is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the Spirit of God pronouncing His works good. But prayer as a means of effecting a private end is theft and meanness. It presupposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as a man is at one with God he does not beg. He then sees prayer in all action. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Man will not receive help from the Infinite except to the extent that he believes and hopes and prays for help from this great source. —Theron Q. Dumont, The Power of Concentration

We must know first that prayer is cumulative; that the more we pray the more we accumulate of the powerful spiritual energy which transforms invisible ideas into visible things. Paul said, “Pray without ceasing.” Do not supplicate and beg God to give you what you need, but realize, affirm, and absolutely know that your supreme mind is functioning right now in God-Mind itself and that your thought substance and the spiritual substance of the Most High are amalgamated and blended into one perfect whole that is now being made manifest in the very thing you are asking for. —Charles Fillmore, Teach Us to Pray

You cannot impress the mind of God by having a special Sabbath day set apart to tell Him what you want, and then forgetting Him during the rest of the week. You cannot impress Him by having special hours to go into your closet and pray, if you then dismiss the matter from your mind until the hour of prayer comes again. —Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

Oral prayer is well enough, and has its effect, especially upon yourself, in clarifying your vision and strengthening your faith; but it is not your oral petitions which get you what you want.... You do not need a “sweet hour of prayer”; you need to “pray without ceasing.” And by prayer I mean holding steadily to your vision, with the purpose to cause its creation into solid form, and the faith that you are doing so. —Wallace Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich

A sincere prayer can work wonders. It is an intense longing of the soul for its even greater purity. —Mahatma Gandhi, Young India

A prayer to be true has to be intelligible and definite. One has to identify oneself with it. Counting beads with the name of Allah on one’s lips whilst the mind wanders in all directions is worse than useless. —Mahatma Gandhi, Young India

In prayer for a change in condition, physical, mental, or financial, for yourself or another, bear in mind that the fundamental necessity for the answer to prayer is the understanding of the scientific statement: “Ask, believing you have already received, and you shall receive.” This is not as difficult as it appears on the surface, once you realize that: 1) Everything has its origin in the mind, and that which you seek outwardly, you already possess. 2) No one can think a thought in the future. 3) Your thought of a thing constitutes its origin. Therefore: The thought form of the thing is already yours as soon as you think it. Your steady recognition of this Thought Possession causes the thought to concentrate, to condense, to project itself, and to assume physical form. —Genevieve Behrend, Your Invisible Power