Quotes about pray
prayer ignorance sacrifice
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned. Christopher Hitchens
prayer impossible
It is impossible to have a prayer without power. Gary Zukav
prayer next-level levels
Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level. Gary Busey
prayer men doe
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers. Fulton J. Sheen
prayer long church
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.
prayer feet meditation
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.
prayer world next
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
prayer exercise two
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
prayer relief casting
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
prayer talking silence
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
prayer believe gun
I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it Francois Rabelais
prayer fire
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over. George Carey
prayer men thinking
The man who prays is the one who thinks that god has arranged matters all wrong, but who also thinks that he can instruct god how to put them right.
prayer school people
We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, and now we're having weekly shootings practically. We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS. Christine O'Donnell
praying knows i-pray
I pray there's a God...I know there's an Oprah. Chris Rock
prayer decision may
Prayer is not a substitute for work. First we have to do all we can ourselves to understand a situation. Then when we ask for help, sometimes it is very evident, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we may well be helped by not getting a decision. George W. Romney
praying unification stability
I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves. George Weah
prayer blessed able
There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish. George Washington Carver
prayer order giving
All my life I have risen regularly at four o'clock and have gone into the woods and talked to God. There He gives me my orders for the day.
prayer attitude animal
My prayers seem to be more of an attitude than anything else. I indulge in very little lip service, but ask the Great Creator silently, daily, and often many times a day, to permit me to speak to Him through the three great Kingdoms of the world which He has created - the animal, mineral, and vegetable Kingdoms - to understand their relations to each other, and our relations to them and to the Great God who made all of us. I ask Him daily and often momently to give me wisdom, understanding, and bodily strength to do His will; hence I am asking and receiving all the time.
prayer heart government
Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that Thou wilt incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government; to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another and for their fellow-citizens of the United States at large. George Washington
prayer united-states protection
Almighty God, we make our earnest prayer that thou wilt keep the United States in thy holy protection...
prayer blessed humble
I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection ... that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
prayer real believe
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them. George Saunders
prayer people effort
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end. George Santayana
prayer effort substitutes
Prayer is not a substitute for work; it is an effort to work further and be efficient beyond the range of one's powers.
prayer mistake heart
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. George Muller
prayer giving-up reading
It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.
prayer meditation use
Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.
prayer done overcoming
The greater the difficulty to be overcome, the more will it be seen to the glory of God how much can be done by prayer and faith.
prayer reading heart
Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water passes through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering it over and applying it to our hearts.
prayer believe names
I believe God has heard my prayers. He will make it manifest in His own good time that He has heard me. I have recorded my petitions that when God has answered them, His name will be glorified.
prayer believe blessing
It is not enough to begin to pray, nor to pray aright; nor is it enough to continue for a time to pray; but we must patiently, believingly, continue in prayer until we obtain an answer; and further we have not only to continue in prayer unto the end, but we have also to believe that God does hear us, and will answer our prayers. Most frequently we fail in not continuing in prayer until the blessing is obtained, and in not expecting the blessing.