Quotes about pray
prayer imagination empathy
A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer. David James
prayer coincidence praying
When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. William Temple
prayer selfish answers
If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.
prayer blessed sacrifice
Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.
prayer heart healing
There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.
prayer war unity
I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.
prayer war men
Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully. Abraham Lincoln
prayer praying
She would have been in here praying with me.
prayer moving caring
Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively. Bruce Willis
prayer exercise men
To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men?
prayer believe said
You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then?" "I believe in them all." Vin frowned. "None of them contradict each other?" Sazed smiled. "Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all. Brandon Sanderson
prayer children parent
It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs. Archibald Alexander
prayer rain sky
Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need. Ben Marcus
prayer kneeling standing
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing. Barbara Johnson
prayer transactions
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. Barbara Kingsolver
prayer people and-love
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people. Arthur Middleton
prayer evil church
The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.
prayer asking helping
Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something Dennis Prager
prayer heart poverty
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
prayer community baths
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
prayer father faithful
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.
prayer simple praying
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
prayer odds vanity
Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
prayer school great-schools
The Psalter is the great school of prayer.
prayer heart important
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
prayer father heart
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
prayer praying christ
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
prayer earth faces
As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth, Efraim Zuroff
prayer sacrifice atheism
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail. Aristotle
prayer wicked-person affliction
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. Ben Jonson
prayer heaven praying
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
prayer grief wish
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
pray sing songs time touch
I don't want to sing songs that aren't worth while. Time is so rare. I just don't want to waste the listener's time and I think that my songs don't do that. That's what I pray for. I want songs that really touch people's hearts. Rodney Atkins