Quotes about pray
prayer mean wrestling
You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide open while someone else says them for you. It means fervent, effectual, untiring wrestling with God. This kind of prayer be sure the devil and the world and your own indolent, unbelieving nature will oppose. They will pour water on this flame. William Booth
prayer play two
May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute. William Butler Yeats
prayer real feelings
Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings. Wilhelm von Humboldt
prayer real self
Prayer is intended to increase the devotion of the individual, but if the individual himself prays he requires no formula; he pours himself forth much more naturally in self-chosen and connected thoughts before God, and scarcely requires words at all. Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.
prayer government israel
But, more than anything, in the more than three years of this Government's existence, the Israeli people has proven that it is possible to make peace, that peace opens the door to a better economy and society; that peace is not just a prayer. Peace is first of all in our prayers, but it is also the aspiration of the Jewish people, a genuine aspiration for peace. Yitzhak Rabin
prayer struggle years
Across the continent, on the shores of small tributaries, in the shadows of sacred mountains, on the vast expanse of the prairies, or in the safety of the woods, prayers are being repeated, as they have for thousands of years, and common people with uncommon courage and the whispers of their ancestors in their ears continue their struggles to protect the land and water and trees on which their very existence is based. And like small tributaries joining together to form a mighty river, their force and power grows. Winona LaDuke
prayer broken promise
Prayers and promises. The one his sister made to him. The unspoken one I made to my sister. Prayers are promises, too, and these are the days of broken promises. Rick Yancey
prayer sleep broken
I brought Sammy inside and put him to bed. Said his prayer with him. “‘Now I lay me down to sleep…’” To me, just random noise. Gibberish. I wasn’t sure exactly what it was, but I felt that, when it came to God, there was a broken promise in there somewhere.
prayer delay want
Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him. Rick Warren
prayer use things-to-do
Never use prayer as an excuse to procrastinate doing what you already know is the right thing to do.
prayer use
Prayer is the greatest use of my words.
prayer worry anxiety
The more you pray, the less you'll panic. The more you worship, the less you worry. You'll feel more patient and less pressured.
prayer people our-love
People may refuse our love or reject our message, but they are defenseless against our prayers.
prayer giving thanks
Almost nobody gives thanks to God at Thanksgiving, unless there's a short prayer before we eat.
prayer character promise
Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test... You will be tested by major changes, delayed promises, impossible problems, unanswered prayers, undeserved criticism, and even senseless tragedies.
prayer form music-is
Music is a form of prayer. Toru Takemitsu
prayer moving iron
All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca. Vikram Seth
prayer air religion
All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate. Robert Green Ingersoll
prayer spring thinking
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
prayer children intelligent
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
prayer fall law
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
prayer pain passion
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.
prayer deeds good-deeds
A good deed is the best prayer.
prayer eye men
The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
prayer reading winter
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.
prayer labor-day answers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
prayer noble answers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
prayer war soldier
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling
prayer giving people
If you just breathe, and go slower, you will have enough energy. It's really important because there are people who wait in line, and your work has changed their lives. You will need to listen to them because they are also going to feed you and give you confirmation of the prayer you asked before you spoke. Sandra Cisneros
prayer heart tough
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. Ruth Graham
prayer praying
We cannot pray and remain the same.
prayer men married
God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times!
prayer school america
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. Ronald Reagan