Quotes about prayer
prayer people religion
Most people do not pray; they only beg. George Bernard Shaw
prayer lasts toil
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants. Alexander MacLaren
prayer turns
Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.
prayer heart agony
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid
prayer waiting thankfulness
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
prayer heart grace
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way! Alexander Pope
prayer play identity
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation. Alex Grey
prayer men battle
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him. Albert Schweitzer
prayer warrior challenges
When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world. Debbie Ford
prayer exercise work-out
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. E. Stanley Jones
prayer mean commitment
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
prayer abandon sooner-or-later
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.
prayer purpose purpose-of-god
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God.
prayer mean praying
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
prayer cooperation boat
Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
prayer religion world
No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously. E. O. Wilson
prayer school perfect
A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam. Doug Larson
prayer war animal
Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption? Donald E. Westlake
prayer writing editing
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. Donald Barthelme
prayer sin strategy
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. Don DeLillo
prayer struggle europe
The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day. Don Howe
prayer eye sacrifice
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. Dwight D. Eisenhower
prayer world littles
The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer. Dwight L. Moody
prayer great-work ifs
My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.
prayer rushing never-settle
Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.
prayer thinking use
Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.
prayer people criticism
How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.
prayer careful prayerful
Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.
prayer cutting men
Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.
prayer desire scripture
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
prayer love-one-another ifs
If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
prayer doubt may
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
prayer spirit god-is-with-us
Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.