Quotes about pray
prayer mean want
Vance Havner If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
prayer wrestling men
Vance Havner It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.
prayer talking people
Valerie June I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.
prayer meditation able
Valerie June I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.
prayer dying offers
Robin Hobb For, "Yes," he had sighed on his dying breath, and all knew that was the ultimate prayer one could offer to life.
prayer thankfulness guidance
Robert E. Lee No day should be lived unless it was begun with a prayer of thankfulness and an intercession for guidance.
prayer mean hands
Robert E. Lee While we see the Course of the final abolition of human Slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who Chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a Single day.
prayer tree church
Satish Kumar How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.
prayer talking apples
Sarah Vowell There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.
prayer heart dust
Samuel Taylor Coleridge I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.
prayer errands praying
Samuel Rutherford I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.
prayer passion mind
Samuel Johnson Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned
prayer philosophical thinking
Virgil Cease to think that the decrees of the gods can be changed by prayers.
prayer people good-people
Willa Cather The prayers of all good people are good.
prayer people said
Willa Cather Prayers said by good people are always good prayers
prayer broken soul
Willa Cather The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.
prayer practice doubt
Warren E. Burger There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.
prayer men views
Warren E. Burger The men who wrote the First Amendment religion clause did not view paid legislative chaplains and opening prayers as a violation of that amendment... the practice of opening sessions with prayer has continued without interruption ever since that early session of Congress. It can hardly be thought that in the same week the members of the first Congress voted to appoint and pay a chaplain for each House and also voted to approve the draft of the First Amendment... (that) they intended to forbid what they had just declared acceptable.
prayer house problem
Vladimir Zhirinovsky There is no problem with the opening of new houses of prayer for Lutherans and Pentecostals.
prayer believe sky
Wayne Dyer We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and then the vending machine dispenses these prayers based upon how well we've followed the rules that someone else has told us are God's rules.
prayer law desire
Walter Cronkite Let us hear the peal of a new international liberty bell that calls us all to the creation of a system of enforceable world law in which the universal desire for peace can place its hope and prayers.
prayer adventure hands
An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free.
prayer fall broken
Samuel Butler I fall asleep in the full and certain hope That my slumber shall not be broken; And that, though I be all-forgetting, Yet shall I not be all-forgotten, But continue that life in the thoughts and deeds of those I have loved.
prayer mind energy
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.
prayer men mind
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total concentration of the faculties. The great mass of worldly men and of learned men are absolutely incapable of prayer.
prayer poetry paradigm
Samuel Beckett All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
prayer past taught-us
Rudolf Steiner When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power.
prayer real character
Wesley Snipes I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together.
prayer school squares
Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools."This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.
prayer unique class
W. H. Auden In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
prayer attention definitions
W. H. Auden The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
prayer doe records
William Cowper It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st