Quotes about pray
prayer people would-be
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists. D. A. Carson
prayer thinking self
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
prayer self our-world
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
prayer blessing drawing
Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
prayer approval reputation
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
prayer worry
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
prayer house devil
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation. Daniel Defoe
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
praying feels compulsion
When you pray, you begin to feel the sense of being sent.
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.
praying ifs know-how
If we know how to pray, we know how to live.
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 laughter lord
Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Douglas Adams
prayer gains chance
Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him. Dale Evans