Quotes about prayer
prayer hands existence
I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other. Vanna Bonta
prayer character answers
I had wanted to be a regular character on a series for a while. 'The Brady Bunch' was an answer to a prayer. Susan Olsen
prayer play littles
Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer. Susan Vreeland
prayer simple space
The dogmatic and, therefore, invulnerable core in Islam is understandably simple: acknowledgement of faith, prayer, charity and fasting. Almost everything else is open to interpretation and modification in space and time. Tariq Ramadan
prayer sleep way
Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.
prayer cat sight
Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer. Stephanie Mills
prayer endless stills
The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.-The Watcher in The Avengers #14 Stan Lee
prayer speech hours
Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it. Sophie Swetchine
prayer ignorant atheism
They are deceived who flatter themselves that the ignorant and debased slave has no conception of the magnitude of his wrongs. They are deceived who imagine that he arises from his knees with back lacerated and bleeding, cherishing only a spirit of meekness and forgiveness. A day may come - it will, if his prayer is heard. A terrible day of vengeance when the master in his turn will cry in vain for mercy. Solomon Northup
prayer simple effort
The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity. Thomas Merton
prayer reality law
The whole function of the life of prayer is, then, to enlighten and strengthen our conscience so that it not only knows and perceives the outward, written precepts of the moral and divine laws, but above all lives God's law in concrete reality by perfect and continual union with His will.
prayer silence unity
To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without.
prayer perfect desire
You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.
prayer thinking self
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.
prayer weather climate
I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.
prayer roots depth
It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God.
prayer answers littles
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
prayer silence world
When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer.
prayer way
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us...
prayer wind sky
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
prayer expression who-we-are
Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
prayer men soul
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. Thomas Carlyle
prayer tired clouds
The bottom line is pray. If you’re tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed—pray. If you’re on cloud nine and life seems perfect—pray. If you lack direction—pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference—pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control—pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you’re your control—pray even harder. Whatever you do—pray. Tony Evans
prayer wall taken
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'. Tomas Transtromer
prayer desire
There's no prayer like desire. Tom Waits
prayer blessing holiness
Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival. Steve Camp
prayer advice littles
The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand. Sigrid Undset
prayer meditation listening
Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility. Shirley MacLaine
prayer holiness source
Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness. Pope John Paul II
prayer sacrifice desire
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
prayer powerful sacrifice
Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history.
prayer light service-to-others
We must reflect the light of Christ through lives of prayer and joyful service to others.
prayer lakes mountain
We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.