Quotes about prayer
prayer eye wings
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
prayer past listening
Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them. Adam Savage
prayer heart christian-inspirational
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. Adam Clarke
prayer atheism decree
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree. Abraham Lincoln
prayer desire quiet
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God. Andrew Murray
prayer father sacrifice
The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father. Andrew Murray
prayer supplication feels
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love. Andrew Murray
prayer men forgiving
Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith. Andrew Murray
prayer children father
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child. Andrew Murray
prayer heart desire
God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him. Andrew Murray
prayer moving believe
We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth. Andrew Murray
prayer ephemeral busy
Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life. Allan Bloom
prayer thinking solitude
Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. Andrea Gibson
prayer magic certain
I would have to say the power to heal. This show has enhanced my relationship to magic. I would have called it prayer. There are definitely certain incantations that I do now. Alyssa Milano
prayer believe everyday
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance. A. J. Jacobs
prayer nice believe
I don't believe that prayers actually change God's mind - if there is a God - but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while. A. J. Jacobs
prayer meditation
Meditation is a huge part of my life. And prayer. A. J. McLean
prayer asking satan
Satan can't keep God from answering our prayers, but he will keep us from asking. Adrian Rogers
prayer can-do
Prayer can do anything God can do and God can do anything! Adrian Rogers
prayer promise answers
There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve. Adrian Rogers
prayer heart naps
If you find a reluctancy to go into the presence of God, there may be unconfessed, unrepented sin in your life. Part of your quiet time is to get your heart clean and pure. Each of us needs to take ourselves by the nap of our necks and confess and repent before we come into God's holy presence to fellowship. Adrian Rogers
prayer shapes matter
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came. Adoniram Judson
prayer blessing giving
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it. Adoniram Judson
prayer self world
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer issues have-faith
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer humble answers
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer ends
Prayer begins where our power ends. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer issues
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer self consciousness
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer home self
Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer mindfulness emptiness
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer our-world broken
One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer heart bridges
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will. Abraham Joshua Heschel