Quotes about pray
prayer wings praying
Pray the largest prayers.pray not for crutches but for wings. Phillips Brooks
prayer men stronger
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.
prayer tasks praying
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
prayer lying gods-will
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
prayer thinking wings
Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.
prayer voice giving
The things, good Lord, that we pray for, give us the grace to labour for', as Sir Thomas More expressed it. The inner voice of prayer expresses itself naturally in action, just as the inner voice of my brain guides all my bodily actions. Philip Yancey
prayer race goal
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.
prayer doe answers
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.
prayer heart soul
Only in prayer can we learn to love God with all our heart, mind and soul.
prayer soul stillness
Prayer unfolds in the stillness of the soul.
prayer
Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.
prayer pool gods-love
Prayer enters the pool of God's love and widens outward.
prayer alliances world
God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.
prayer humans
Prayer is a place where God and humans meet.
prayer company
Prayer is - keeping company with God.
prayer declaration dependence
Prayer is a declaration of dependence upon God.
prayer want-something desire
If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps align my desires with God's.
prayer believe listening
Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong.... Prayer requires the faith to believe that God listens.
prayer shopping way
For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of keeping company with God.
prayer reality views
Prayer is the act of seeing reality from God's point of view.
prayer believe irritation
Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments of ecstasy and also dullness, mindless distraction and acute concentration, flashes of joy and bouts of irritation. In other words, prayer has features in common with all relationships that matter.
prayer views may
Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back to accomplish God's will, the work of the kingdom. We are God's fellow workers, and as such we turn to prayer to equip us for the partnership.
prayer important use
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
prayer father doe
Why pray? Evidently, God likes to be asked. God certainly does not need our wisdom or our knowledge, nor even the information contained in our prayers ("your Father knows what you need before you ask him"). But by inviting us into the partnership of creation, God also invites us into relationship. God is love, said the apostle John. God does not merely have love or feel love. God is love and cannot not love. As such, God yearns for relationship with the creatures made in his image.
prayer mean grace
Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.
prayer church needs
The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world. Pope John XXIII
prayer mind matter
Prayer is the raising of the mind to God. We must always remember this. The actual words matter less.
prayer sunday important
Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord. Pope Francis
prayer understanding may
May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness.
prayer moving heart
One form of prayer moves us particularly to take up the task of evangelization and to seek the good of others: it is the prayer of intercession. Let us peer for a moment into the heart of Saint Paul, to see what his prayer was like. It was full of people: "...I constantly pray with you in every one of my prayers for all of you... because I hold you in my heart" (Phil 1:4, 7). Here we see that intercessory prayer does not divert us from true contemplation, since authentic contemplation always has a place for others.
prayer heart self
When evangelizers rise from prayer, their hearts are more open; freed of self-absorption, they are desirous of doing good and sharing their lives with others.
prayer struggle miracle
Miracles happen. But prayer is needed! Prayer that is courageous, struggling and persevering, not prayer that is a mere formality.
prayer suffering helping
In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help,