Quotes about prayer
prayer real desire
The real end of prayer is not so much to get this or that single desire granted, as to put human life into full and joyful conformity with the will of God. Charles Bent
prayer might knees
Intercessory prayer might be defined as loving our neighbour on our knees.
prayer real church
Sweetheart," Bill said formally, "I have always loved you, and I will be proud to die in your service. When I'm gone, say a prayer for me in a real church. Charlaine Harris
prayer sleep men
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep. Charles Baudelaire
prayer broken soul
Excess of trouble may, for a time, distract and overwhelm the soul. Our Lord himself seems to have experienced somewhat of this. Our prayers, perhaps, are never more acceptable, than when they are offered in broken accents, in sighs, and groans. Charles Simeon
prayer facts praying
We, one and all of us, have an instinct to pray; and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray. Charles Sanders Peirce
prayer enemy praying
The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have. Bill Johnson
prayer catholic church
I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. Bernhard Langer
prayer hands soul
A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action. Edward Hirsch
prayer mean soul
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'. Edith Stein
prayer catholic longing
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
prayer heart soul
The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
prayer warrior ideas
Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.
prayer blow winning
Prayer is action. By it we step out in advance of all other results . . . Praying is an activity upon which all others depend. By prayer we establish a beachhead for the kingdom among peoples where it has never been before. Prayer strikes the winning blow. All other missionary efforts simply gather up the fruits of our praying.
prayer determined missions
Pursuing prayer is prayer on a mission. It is diligent, fervent, constant, persevering, determined, and convinced.
prayer wind soul
God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls. David Brainerd
prayer reading heart
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
prayer sweat rose
In prayer I was exceedingly enlarged, and my soul was as much drawn out as I ever remember it to have been in my life. I was in such anguish, and pleaded with so much earnestness and importunity, that when I rose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome; I could scarce walk straight; my joints were loosed; the sweat ran down my face and body; and nature seemed as if it would dissolve....
prayer cottages littles
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc
prayer ideas mind
The idea that everything would happen exactly as it does regardless of whether we pray or not is a specter that haunts the minds of many who sincerely profess belief in God. It makes prayer psychologically impossible, replacing it with dead ritual at best.
prayer reading superficial-knowledge
Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge.
prayer hands eyebrows
I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die. Bear Grylls
prayer benefits patient
Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being. Armstrong Williams
prayer spring flames
At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.... Denise Levertov
prayer vanity wish
I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return. William Shakespeare
prayer heart steel
Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.
prayer nymphs hamlet-and-ophelia
Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!
prayer heaven grace
If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
prayer people would-be
People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers. Kurt Vonnegut
prayer past too-late
O my good lord, that comfort comes too late, 'Tis like a pardon after execution. That gentle physic, given in time, had cured me; But now I am past all comforts here but prayers.
prayer past comfort
Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer.
prayer atheism way
His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way.
prayer saint use
Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer.