Quotes about pray
prayer rain thinking
Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer. Henri Poincare
prayer mind essentials
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer. Henri Matisse
prayer distance taken
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place. Henri Nouwen
prayer community clubs
Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.
prayer existence humans
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
prayer goal fruit
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
prayer listening firsts
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
prayer passionate pursuit
It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
prayer community wells
By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.
prayer home way
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
prayer thinking involved
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
prayer desire passionate
I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
prayer praying realizing
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
prayer purpose done
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.
prayer heart ideas
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
prayer manipulation degenerates
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.
prayer silence contemplative
It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
prayer hands knowing
When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have your hands open toward prayer, you are able to stretch out your arms and let yourself be led without knowing where. You know only the freedom which God's breath has brought you will lead to new life, even if the cross is the only sign of it you can see.
prayer pain struggle
You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear.
prayer hands naked
Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can do nothing. As disciples, we find not some but all of our strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God. Therefore, prayer must be our first concern.
prayer done spirit
Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.
prayer real blessing
the real "work" of prayer is to become silent and listen to the voice that says good things about me. To gently push aside and silence the many voices that question my goodness and to trust that I will hear the voice of blessing-- that demands real effort.
prayer advice youth
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged. Hesiod
prayer care health-care
I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life. Henry Paulson
prayer suffering world
I saw the suffering and I let myself feel it… I saw the injustice and was compelled to do something about it. I changed from being a nun who only prayed for the suffering world to a woman with my sleeves rolled up, living my prayer. Helen Prejean
praying lord britain
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. Heinrich Heine
prayer silence house
You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts. Hilary Mantel
prayer war men
It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk. Henry Ward Beecher
prayer wine inward
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
prayer men may
His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.
prayer real men
Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy.
prayer independent law
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence.
prayer believe men
I used to think the Lord's Prayer was a short prayer; but as I live longer, and see more of life, I begin to believe there is no such thing as getting through it. If a man, in praying that prayer, were to be stopped by every word until he had thoroughly prayed it, it would take him a lifetime.