Quotes about prayer
prayer love-is praying
Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it. Peter Kreeft
prayer secret debt
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. Rabindranath Tagore
prayer sunday thinking
When I was in my early 20s I converted to Catholicism after a long period of searching. What I think drew me to the Catholic church is that in Catholicism, prayer suffuses all of one's life by virtue of the sacraments. Prayer is not something which occurs just on Sunday, it doesn't occur only at particular moments of intensity or by particular conventions, one's whole life is given up to prayer in many, many modes. And so everything to do with the faith is trying to put you in relationship with God and trying to make that relationship grow deeper and more mature. Kevin Hart
prayer prophet our-prayers
Our prayers are prophets. Ralph Waldo Emerson
prayer schizophrenia
When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia. Lily Tomlin
prayer psychosis speak
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
prayer father two
It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail Mary when I feel so spiritually barren that I cannot summon up a single worth while thought. These two prayers fill me with rapture and feed and satisfy my soul. Therese of Lisieux
prayer lying moving
My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice, these are my invincible arms; they can move hearts far better than words, I know it by experience.
prayer conquer one-thing
Prayer is the one thing that can conquer God Tertullian
prayer men moments
Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.
prayer fall home
Prayer cleanses from sin, drives away temptations, stamps out persecutions, comforts the fainthearted, gives new strength to the courageous, brings travellers safely home, calms the waves, confounds robbers, feeds the poor, overrules the rich, lifts up the fallen, supports those who are falling, sustains those who stand firm.
prayer men discipline
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language. Leon Uris
prayer thinking flow
My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am. George MacDonald
prayer soul pouring
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised. John Bunyan
prayer children father
In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them. Louisa May Alcott
prayer memories eye
Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers. John Donne
prayer heart thrones
Prayer is our essential lifeline to God's throne and heart. Franklin Graham
prayer moving speak
Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer. Francois Fenelon
prayer faithful regularity
To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb
prayer two attention
There are two principal points of attention necessary for the preservation of this constant spirit of prayer which unites us with God; we must continually seek to cherish it, and we must avoid everything that tends to make us lose it.
prayer essentials christianity
Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
prayer moving doors
This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same. Lois McMaster Bujold
prayer home unapologetic
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. Lyndon B. Johnson
prayer grief tired
... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for. M. F. K. Fisher
prayer soul
Prayer is the life of the soul. Madame de Stael
prayer numbers israel
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours. Jimmy Carter
prayer answers sometimes
God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'
prayer sleep law
Six hours in sleep, in law's grave study six,Four spend in prayer, the rest on Nature fix. Edward Coke
prayer night heaven
Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime. Henry Vaughan
prayer heaven world
Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.
prayer independent law
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a great task for me to correct it; and wilt thou be pleased to correct it for me, that I may get along easier?" If prayer was answered under such circumstances, independent of action of natural laws, it would be paying a premium on indolence. Henry Ward Beecher
prayer hypocrisy time-flies
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist! Charles Studd
prayer determined missions
Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.