Quotes about prayer
prayer writing praying
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. Denise Levertov
prayer compassion promise
It is my prayer that patience will be a defining characteristic of we who hold the priesthood of Almighty God; that we will courageously trust the Lord's promises and His timing; that we will act toward others with the patience and compassion we seek for ourselves; and that we will continue in patience until we are perfected. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
prayer loneliness heart
. . . the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of greater importance. Let us open our eyes and see the heavy hearts, notice the loneliness and despair; let us feel the silent prayers of others around us; and let us be an instrument in the hands of the Lord to answer those prayers.
prayer fun home
We build deep and loving family relationships by doing simple things together, like family dinner and family home evening and by just having fun together. In family relationships love is really spelled t-i-m-e, time. Taking time for each other is the key for harmony at home. We talk with, rather than about, each other. We learn from each other, and we appreciate our differences as well as our commonalities. We establish a divine bond with each other as we approach God together through family prayer, gospel study, and Sunday worship.
prayer answers becoming
By becoming the answer to someone's prayer, we often find the answer to our own.
prayer men voice
When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.
prayer struggle love-you
Yes, God loves you this very day and always. He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses and bad habits. He loves you today with a full understanding of your struggles. He is aware that you reach up to Him in heartfelt and hopeful prayer. He knows of the times you have held onto the fading light and believed-even in the midst of growing darkness. He knows of your sufferings. He knows of your remorse for the times you have fallen short or failed. And still He loves you.
prayer feet doe
Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us.
prayer powerful thinking
I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis. Dennis Kucinich
prayer spring bird
Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer. Deepak Chopra
prayer expected ifs
Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered. Edgar Cayce
prayer mean self
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .
prayer answers asking
For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.
prayer meditation speak
Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.
prayer engagement eating
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick. Elizabeth McCracken
prayer wish praying-to-god
Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
prayer results boldness
Prayer in private results in boldness in public. Edwin Louis Cole
prayer obedience produce
A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.
prayer spring lying
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
prayer men answers
The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.
prayer believe thinking
People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or do. In such cases, like abortion or prayer or prohibition or sexual identity, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the free conscience of each person, not the coercive rule of secular law. Edward Kennedy
prayer educational self
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer bounds plenty
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
prayer honor aids
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
prayer men causes
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
prayer praying born
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
prayer practice perfect
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.
prayer men earth
Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.
prayer design heaven
Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.
prayer doe ministry
. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
prayer world shapes
God shapes the world by prayer.
prayer men needs
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
prayer can-do nothingness
We can do nothing without prayer.