Quotes about pray
prayer past listening
Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them. Adam Savage
prayer heart christian-inspirational
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. Adam Clarke
praying protection caliphs
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
prayer atheism decree
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree. Abraham Lincoln
prayer desire quiet
Prayer [is] the quiet, persistent living of our life of desire and faith in the presence of our God. Andrew Murray
prayer father sacrifice
The sooner I learn to forget myself in the desire that He may be glorified, the richer will be the blessing that prayer will bring to myself. No one ever loses by what he sacrifices to the Father.
prayer supplication feels
The great thing in prayer is to feel that we are putting our supplications into the bosom of omnipotent love.
prayer men forgiving
Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.
prayer children father
Answered prayer is the interchange of love between the Father and His child.
prayer heart desire
God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.
prayer moving believe
We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.
prayer ephemeral busy
Nietzsche said the newspaper had replaced the prayer in the life of the modern bourgeois , meaning that the busy, the cheap, the ephemeral, had usurped all that remained of the eternal in his daily life. Allan Bloom
prayer thinking solitude
Lately I've been thinking about who I want to love, and how I want to love, and why I want to love the way I want to love, and what I need to learn to love that way, and how I need to become to become the kind of love I want to be. And when I break it all down, when I whittle it into a single breath, it essentially comes out like this: before I die, I want to be somebody's favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe. Andrea Gibson
prayer answers might
Call unto me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and might things which thou knowest not. Hudson Taylor
prayer powerful home
The feeling, "this can't be it", is a very powerful form of prayer. It's the agony of the separated self longing for reunion with wholeness. It's the call of your soul urging you to return to your own path and purpose. It's the force of evolution driving you home. Do not try to deny or override your divine discontent. Heed its call. Knowing "this can't be it" implies that somewhere inside you, you DO know what IS it. Alan Cohen
prayers thankful thoughts
We are just very thankful they're all safe. And our thoughts and prayers are with those who have no place to go.
prayers span time
I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come. Gloria Gaither
prayer shapes matter
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came. Adoniram Judson
prayer blessing giving
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
prayer self world
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting. The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender. Abraham Joshua Heschel
prayer issues have-faith
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
prayer humble answers
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
prayer ends
Prayer begins where our power ends.
prayer issues
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
prayer self consciousness
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
prayer home self
Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.
prayer mindfulness emptiness
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
praying mystery wonder
To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
prayer our-world broken
One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words. We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken. We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words - an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words - is an essential prerequisite for prayer. By the word of God the world was created.
prayer heart bridges
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
prayer pyramids hatred
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
prayer presidential anxiety
I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.
prayer ems appeals
Prayers are like those appeals of ours. Either they don't get through or they're returned with 'rejected' scrawled across 'em. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn