Quotes about pray
prayer may praying
Teach us to pray often, that we may pray oftener. Jeremy Taylor
prayer lying hands
When you lie down with a short prayer, commit yourself into the hands of your Creator; and when you have done so, trust Him with yourself, as you must do when you are dying.
prayer
Whatsoever we beg of God, let us also work for it.
prayer men looks
When we pray for any virtue, we should cultivate the virtue as well as pray for it; the form of your prayer should be the rule of your life; every petition to God is a precept to man. Look not, therefore, upon your prayers as a method of good and salvation only, but as a perpetual monition of duty. By what we require of God we see what he requires of us.
prayer heart sacrifice
No man can hinder our private addresses to God; every man can build a chapel in his breast, himself the priest, his heart the sacrifice, and the earth he treads on, the altar.
prayer needs body
The body of our prayer is the sum of our duty; and as we must ask of God whatsoever we need, so we must watch and labor for all that we ask.
prayer two three
I was playing garbage minutes the first two to three weeks. There was definitely a little bit of 'what's going on?' in my prayers. Jeremy Lin
prayer answers addresses
Can a little speck in the vast universe truly address the Infinite? The answer is that Prayer is precisely what converts that little speck into an entity of inestimable and cosmic significance. Jeff Cohen
prayer school united-states
It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up. Jeff Cooper
prayer wish irs
Le de s ir de la prie' re est de j a' une prie' re. The wish for prayer is already a prayer. Georges Bernanos
prayer wish praying
The wish to pray is a prayer in itself.
prayer believer true-believer
The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day. George Whitefield
prayer silent week
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
prayer world lovers
The prayers of a lover are more imperious than the menaces of the whole world George Sand
prayer ninety-nine names
Let them like the Tibetans, chew the cud of their "om mane padme hum" innumerable times, or, as in Benares, count the name of the God Ram-Ram-Ram (etc. with or without charm) on their fingers; or honour Vishnu with his thousand names of invocation, Allah with his ninety-nine; or they may make use of the prayer-wheels and the rosary: the main thing is that they are settled down for a time at this work and are tolerable to look at. This kind of prayer has been invented for the benefit of the pious who have thought and elevations of their own. Friedrich Nietzsche
praying hell lost
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself. George Bernard Shaw
prayer mercy-of-god venice
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
prayer people political
Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.
prayer self voice
In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity. Gelsey Kirkland
prayer self
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love. Frederick William Robertson
prayer passionate-desire expectations
That prayer which does not succeed in moderating our wishes--in changing the passionate desire into still submission, the anxious, tumultuous expectation into silent surrender--is no true prayer, and proves that we have not the spirit of true prayer.
prayer wish praying
Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.
prayer hands giving
After sketching his program for the scientific revolution that he foresaw, Bacon ends his account with a prayer: "Humbly we pray that this mind may be steadfast in us, and that through these our hands, and the hands of others to whom thou shalt give the same spirit, thou wilt vouchsafe to endow the human family with new mercies". That is still a good prayer for all of us as we begin the twenty-first century. Freeman Dyson
prayer writing form
Writing [is] a form of prayer. Franz Kafka
prayer war hate
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains. Erica Jong
prayer moving ideas
The whole of God is present at every point in space at the same time. Take time to meditate on this great idea. In other words, God doesn't come and go. God doesn't capriciously move substance from God's supply "up there" to fill your needs "down here." Nor does God answer prayer in some kind of coming forth. God is always present, totally present - as a Presence.
prayer mistake woven
As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the only way to smooth a mistake is to let it all unravel. Hannah Kent
prayer light air
How can I say what it was like to breathe again? I felt newborn. I staggered in the light of the world and took deep gulps of fresh sea air. It was late in the day: the wet mouth of the afternoon was full on my face. My soul blossomed in that brief moment as they led me out of doors. I fell, my skirts in the mud, and I turned my face upwards as if in prayer. I could have wept from the relief of light.
prayer struggle home
I don't like when people say, 'I'll pray for you. I'm going to pray for you. Praying for you.' You're going to pray for me? So you're going to sit at home and do nothing? 'Cause that's what your prayers are; you doing nothing while I struggle with a situation. Don't pray for me - make me a sandwich or something. Hannibal Buress
prayer sometimes mercy
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request. Hannah More
prayer book reading
The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.
prayer rain blessing
What ascends up in prayer descends to us again in blessings. It is like the rain which just now fell, and which had been drawn up from the ground in vapors to the clouds before it descended from them to the earth in that refreshing shower.
prayer eloquence compunction
Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.