Quotes about pray
prayer use force
Our prayers cannot force God to do anything, but He uses them as His own instruments to bring about His will. R. C. Sproul
prayer why-not want
In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?
prayer crazy epidemics
Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone.
prayer adoration persons
The more sanctified a person is the more heavily weighted his prayer time is in adoration.
prayer important doe
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us.
prayer perfect catholic
The Mass is the most perfect form of prayer. Pope Paul VI
prayer school independent
And I'll tell you another thing, you won't find any candidate that supports prayer in school and gay marriage. For that reason alone, people should vote for an independent-thinking person. Kinky Friedman
prayer school prayer-in-school
I'll tell you right now. I'm for prayer in school.
prayer used greater-good
My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good. Oprah Winfrey
prayer praying goodness
I have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.
prayer thinking knees
To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.
prayer want praying
God knows, we don't want prayer. Oliver North
prayer would-be puppets
If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it? Margaret Atwood
prayer facts alive
These things you did were like prayers; you did them and you hoped they would save you. And for the most part they did. Or something did; you could tell by the fact that you were still alive.
prayer umpires justice
Never pray for justice, because you might get some.
prayer ifs cease
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. Oscar Wilde
prayer order soul
One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede. Oswald Chambers
prayer men doors
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
prayer watches motive
Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.
prayer thinking way
The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.
prayer understanding succeed
We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.
prayer praying
Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.
prayer exercise poverty
Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.
prayer personality essentials
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
prayer soul body
One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.
prayer father taught
Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.
prayer wind heaven
We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven. Learned Hand
prayer blessing wish
For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it. Leigh Hunt
prayer hands talking
We stand there for a moment, looking at each other, and in that instant I feel our connection so strongly it's as though it achieves physical existence, becomes a hand all around us, cupping us together, protecting us. This is what people are always talking about when they talk about god: this feeling, of being held and understood and protected. feeling this way seems about as close to saying a prayer as you could get... Lauren Oliver
prayer fall tired
I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.
prayer justice protection
The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right. Lajos Kossuth
prayer cards st-jude
I always carry prayer cards to St. Jude and St. Martha with me. Patsy Kensit
praying produce explanation
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.