Quotes about pray
prayer firsts fractals
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole. Jonathan Sacks
prayer book self
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
prayer philosophy book
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. Jonathan Safran Foer
prayer memories ifs
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
prayer infinite-intelligence may
If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain. Napoleon Hill
prayer perfect wish
Pray to be perfect, though material leaven Forbid the spirit so on earth to be; But if for any wish thou darest not pray, Then pray to God to cast that wish away. Hartley Coleridge
prayer light sick
Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.
prayer eye men
To sew is to pray. Men don't understand this. They see the whole but they don't see the stitches. They don't see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a woman's eyes can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only women can hear the prayer. Louise Erdrich
prayer character giving
God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is authenticated, for it is God who gives our prayer its value and its character, not our interior dispositions, not our fervor, not our lucidity. The prayer which is pronounced for God and accepted by him becomes, by that very fact, a true prayer. Jacques Ellul
prayer together creation
Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of creation. It makes history possible.
prayer moments form
Prayer is not a discourse. It is a form of life, the life with God. That is why it is not confined to the moment of verbal statement.
prayer knives want
I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me Henry Rollins
prayer safety delay
Every time in my life when I have chosen to delay following inspired counsel or decided that I was an exception, I came to know that I had put myself in harm's way. Every time that I have listened to the counsel of prophets, felt it confirmed in prayer, and then followed it, I have found that I moved toward safety. Henry B. Eyring
prayer father humble
Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.
prayer father simple
Heavenly Father has given a simple pattern for us to receive the Holy Ghost not once but continually in the tumult of our daily lives. The pattern is repeated in the sacramental prayer: We promise that we will always remember the Savior. We promise to take His name upon us. We promise to keep His commandments.
prayer scripture obedience
Testimony requires the nurturing by the prayer of faith, the hungering for the word of God in the scriptures, and the obedience to the truth.
prayer children father
Our Heavenly Father hears the prayers of His children across the earth pleading for food to eat, for clothes to cover their bodies, and for the dignity that would come from being able to provide for themselves. Those pleas have reached Him since He placed men and women on the earth. But always the Lord’s way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.
prayer father love-you
Heavenly Father hears your prayers, He loves you. He knows your name. He loves you beyond your ability to comprehend.
prayer night air
All nights are sacred nights to make confession and resolve and prayer; all days are sacred days to wake new gladness in the sunny air. Helen Hunt
prayer heart two
Prayer from the depth and prayer from the surface are two prayers. One can utter what Christ has called 'vain repetitions', just repeating the prayer; one does not fix one's mind on the meaning of the prayer. If the depth of one's heart has heard the prayer, God has heard it. Hazrat Inayat Khan
prayer heart world
Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
prayer heart important
It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.
prayer names people
In my prayers every day, which are a combination of Hebrew prayers and Shakespeare and Sondheim lyrics and things people have said to me that I've written down and shoved in my pocket, I also say the name of every person I've ever known who's passed on. Mandy Patinkin
prayer soul satyagraha
Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul.
prayer healing sick
The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer.
prayer mean unity
A congregational prayer is a means for establishing essential human unity though common worship.
prayer praying advent
Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.
prayer bird may
Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.
prayer buddhism long
Buddhism in one long prayer.
prayer self denial
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.
prayer men divine
A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement.
prayer has-beens
Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been.
prayer long-ago should-have
Prayer has been the saviour of my life. Without it I should have been a lunatic long ago.