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4/08/03
"In time and when our hearts are full and we know not that for which
we
should pray, the Spirit will make intercession for us even without the
words.
(See Romans 8:26.)
Our
feelings, our desires are heard through our prayers." — Ardeth
Greene Kapp, "The Joy of the
Journey," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1992], p. 127
4/09/03
"Perhaps we would do well to involve ourselves in praying more quietly
and
continually. Strength, power, and discipline are rewards for
communicating with
God on a continuing personal and private basis. Quietly we can pray
for the
patience to have our secret prayers answered. Sometimes we fail to
recognize
answered prayers because we are expecting more than quiet answers." —
Marvin J. Ashton, "The Measure of Our
Hearts," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1991], p. 106
4/10/03
"Continuing to speak of strategic things, we must have the Spirit with
us,
so that the Holy Ghost can prompt us to pray for that which is right.
Nephi
advised us that the Spirit 'teacheth a man to pray.' (2
Nephi 32:8.) There is,
therefore, a definite connection between our righteousness and our
capacity to
draw upon the Spirit so that we will ask for what we should ask for.
The Lord
told Joseph Smith in 1831, 'And if ye are purified and cleansed from
all sin, ye
shall ask whatsoever you will in the name of Jesus, and it shall be
done. But
know this, it shall be given you what you shall ask....' (D&C
50:29-30)"
— Neal A. Maxwell, "What Should We
Pray For?" "Prayer," [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1977], p.
44
4/11/03
"The great tragedy of life is that, loving us and having paid that
awful
price of suffering, in the moment when He is now prepared to reach
down and help
us we won't let Him. We look down instead of up, accepting the
adversary's
promptings that we must not pray; we cannot pray; we are not worthy to
pray.
But, says Nephi in response to that, 'I say to you that ye must pray
always, and
not faint.'" — Truman G. Madsen,
"The Radiant Life," [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1994], p. 44
4/12/03
"Without our individual refining, therefore, life would become merely
a
pass-through, audited course--not a course for credit. Only in the
latter
arrangement can our experiences and our performances be sanctified for
our own
everlasting good (see 2
Nephi
32:9). Mortality therefore is not a convenient, suburban,
drive-around
beltway with a view. Instead it passes slowly through life's inner
city. Daily
it involves real perspiration, real perplexity, real choosing, real
suffering--and real refining!" — Neal
A. Maxwell, "If Thou Endure It Well," [Salt Lake City: Bookcraft,
1996], p. 8
2/21/17
We should ask our Father to help us meet the temptations of this
life and to deliver us from evil. When we pray from our hearts and
say “For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for
ever,” we commit ourselves. Remember, the kingdom of God, the power
of God, the glory of God should be man’s most cherished and
important blessings and goals in this life.
So important is the need to pray that the prophet Nephi taught “that
ye should not perform any thing unto the Lord save in the first
place ye shall pray unto the Father in the name of Christ, that he
will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may
be for the welfare of thy soul” (2
Ne. 32:9). – Bernard
P. Brockbank, “Prayer
to Our Heavenly Father,” Ensign (CR) November 1979