Quotes about prayer
prayer issues feelings
I feel bad because I haven't been able to say anything to the fans to let them no why I've been absent. I'm torn as I'm quite private. I'm not feeling well. I'm having some health issues. So please keep me in your prayers. Avril Lavigne
prayer odds vanity
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
prayer heart mean
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.
prayer kids
I am in prayer for his kids and the family. Diana Ross
prayer writing celebration
Writing is my form of celebration and prayer. Diane Ackerman
prayer heaven may
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman Desiderius Erasmus
prayer war hands
There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today. Delroy Lindo
prayer believe night
Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way. Dean Koontz
prayer dark remember
Every nerve in my body is so vacant and numb/I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from/Don't even hear a murmur of a prayer/It's not dark yet, but it's getting there. Bob Dylan
prayer men sin
Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin. Brigham Young
prayer potatoes milk
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place.
prayer thinking firsts
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.- Brennan Manning
prayer men essence
In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
prayer firsts acts-of-love
Prayer is first and foremost an act of love
prayer crazy fire-of-love
The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
prayer love-you past
I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.
prayer real simple
I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing. Bonnie Raitt
prayer mind-blowing islam
The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer. Barack Obama
prayer wine pointless
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless. Aristophanes
prayer thinking presence-of-mind
One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings. Brother Lawrence
prayer gods-presence
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
prayer mean simple
I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to GOD, which I may call an actual presence of GOD, or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with GOD, which often causes me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.
prayer simplicity speak
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
prayer heart exercise
A little lifting up of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, an interior act of adoration, even though made on the march and with sword in hand, are prayers which, short though they may be, are nevertheless very pleasing to God, and far from making a soldier lose his courage on the most dangerous occasions, bolster it. Let him then think of God as much as possible so that he will gradually become accustomed to this little but holy exercise; no one will notice it and nothing is easier than to repeat often during the day these little acts of interior adoration.
prayer heart remembrance
Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.
prayer heart remembrance
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
prayer blessing past
That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine love: and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with GOD, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that GOD would give him somewhat to suffer, when he should grow stronger.
prayer thinking needs
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
prayer kitchen doe
The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees.
prayer heaven ardent
Prayer ardent opens heaven. Edward Young
prayer heaven path
Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.
prayer writing different
When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer. Denise Levertov
prayer writing way
In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.