Quotes about Prayer

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

You drew near when I called on You; You said, “Do not be afraid.”

You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

Put a veil of anguish over their hearts; may Your curse be upon them!

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”

urging them to plead for mercy from the God of heaven concerning this mystery, so that Daniel and his friends would not be killed with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

Now when Daniel learned that the document had been signed, he went into his house, where the windows of his upper room opened toward Jerusalem, and three times a day he got down on his knees, prayed, and gave thanks to his God, just as he had done before.