Quotes about pray
prayer powerful home
The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it. Alan Cohen
prayer perfect catholic
The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer. Pope Paul VI
prayer giving-up believe
The devil is perfectly willing that the Church should multiply its organization and its deftly contrived machinery for the conquest of the world for Christ, if it will only give up praying... Satan laughs softly, as he looks at the Church today, and says under his breath: "You can have your Sunday schools, your YMCAs...your grand choirs, and your fine organs, and your brilliant preachers...as long as you do not bring into them the power of Almighty God, sought and obtained by earnest, persistent, believing, mighty prayers." R. A. Torrey
prayer blood knowing
We must know the power of the Blood if we are to know the power of God. Our knowing experimentally the power of the Word, the power of the Holy Spirit, and the power of prayer is dependent upon our knowing the power of the Blood of Christ.
prayer exercise thinking
Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you. Mike Huckabee
prayer feet america
The reason America is a special nation is because it was founded by people who were first on their knees before they were on their feet. We are a nation rooted in our faith.
prayer people care
Prayer reminds me it's not just about me. It's about all the people with whom I share this planet, and all of whom God has created, and all of whom he cares just as much about as he cares about me.
prayer reading meditation
Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness. Nhat Hanh
prayer quiet cry
When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer. Joe Meno
prayer land water
Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land. Jodi Picoult
prayer differences wish
The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.
prayer headstone doing-good
His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good. John Greenleaf Whittier
prayer spirit chains
Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.
prayer heart simple
The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.
prayer teenager home
I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life. Patti Smith
praying another-life mess
Well, then, since you say there will be another life for me, let us both pray I do not make as colossal a mess of it as I have this one. Cassandra Clare
prayer what-if factions
What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating, Christopher Hitchens
prayer doors hands
Oh, God, open all doors for me. Oh God who answers prayers and answers those who ask you, I am asking you for your help. I am asking you for forgiveness. I am asking you to lighten my way. I am asking you to lift the burden I feel. Oh God, you who open all doors, please open all doors for me, open all venues for me, open all avenues for me. God, I trust in you. God, I lay myself in your hands.... There is no God but God, I being a sinner. We are of God, and to God we return. Mohamed Atta
prayer mean writing
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified! Mo Yan
prayer joining solemn
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. Karl Philipp Moritz
prayer artist grace
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. Julia Cameron
prayer responsibility scary
Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?
prayer war humility
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
prayer mean men
I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord. Pat Robertson
prayer powerful people
Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
prayer future feet
When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come. Ovid
prayer memories dark
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in my memory, with the dark womb of church: the chant, the fugue of prayer, the strange erotic energy that carving a very small cross into my thigh with a nail had brought. Marya Hornbacher
prayer believe fall
One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser. Mark Haddon
prayer love-is avalon
Love is the only prayer I know. Marion Zimmer Bradley
prayer sacrifice yield
Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .
prayer mean mind
Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray. Oswald Chambers
prayer secret impossible
It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer
prayer praying ends
We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.