Quotes about pray
prayer joy singing
To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it. Maureen McGovern
prayer giving people
When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy. Matthew Henry
prayer promise
God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.
prayer praying preaching
We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.
prayer giving honor
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
prayer helping mercy
Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.
prayer meals prayer-time
Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.
prayer trouble
Days of trouble must be days of prayer.
prayer expectations desire
God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.
prayer giving answers
Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.
prayer said
The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.
prayer practice may
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.
prayer may forget
Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.
prayer letters
The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
prayer thinking games
First and foremost, prayer is so helpful. But I think that you need to face your fears head on. Don't avoid them or say that you're not scared. Acknowledge it and be honest about it. It's normal to get nervous about a big game or to get nervous about an important event in your life. Matt Cullen
prayer differences perspective
Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well). Meg Cabot
prayer writing praying
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers. Marilynne Robinson
praying intimacy praying-for-you
That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.
prayer grateful dark
I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
prayer doubt excellence
Without doubt I praise the wild excellence... Pablo Neruda
prayer praying
When you sing, you pray twice. Johnny Cash
prayer men balance
If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance. John Taylor
prayer giving reason-why
Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why he should grant this, or that; he knows best what is good for us. John Selden
prayer sky parent
Prayer is not adult letters written to Santa Claus, and God is not some parent-like figure up in the sky who's going to take care of us. John Shelby Spong
praying enough easy
It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.
prayer religion atheism
Prayer cannot be a request made to a theistic deity to act in human history in a particular way.
prayer father maturity
The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity.
prayer thinking land
Some people think prayer stops bullets or rockets or land mines. It doesn't. That's magic, that's not God. Sometimes, you're just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
prayer thinking people
Some people think prayer is telling God what to do. I don't think that's the case.
prayer thinking people
If you're really thinking prayer can stop rockets or bullets, you have to ask why some people do get hit by rockets or bullets. Are they people who no one prayed for? Are they people who God just didn't like? I don't think so.
prayer causes praying
Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray. John Piper
prayer tests hearing
I recall hearing one of my professors in seminary say that one of the best tests of a person's theology was the effect it has on one's prayers.
prayer giving-up order
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray