Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nikos Kazantzakis

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

N. T. Wright

The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy

Morris Graves

It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

Mignon McLaughlin

We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.

Mignon McLaughlin

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

John Ruskin

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.

Matt Cullen

First and foremost, prayer is so helpful. But I think that you need to face your fears head on. Don't avoid them or say that you're not scared. Acknowledge it and be honest about it. It's normal to get nervous about a big game or to get nervous about an important event in your life.

Meg Cabot

Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well).

Marilynne Robinson

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

Marilynne Robinson

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

Pablo Neruda

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence...

Philip James Bailey

Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.

Philip James Bailey

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.

Peyton Manning

I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight.

Paulo Coelho

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.

Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.

Megan McCafferty

Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said.

Max Lucado

Pastoring the flock with words. I love that. We always have a prayer time in the middle of our service. We take about eight or ten minutes before I preach, after we've sung, and invite people to come forward for prayer. That's a tender moment to me. I don't preach much in that, but I like to speak to the people.

Max Lucado

God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.

Max Lucado

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

Max Lucado

I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love God and there's something in me that would rather do things for God than talk to God. I'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. I like to do things. And so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but I know God loves me and He's not mad at me. He just wishes I would slow down and turn things over to Him. And that's what I think you achieve through prayer.

Max Lucado

Prayer lets God do what he does best. Take a pebble & kill a Goliath. Take the common, make it spectacular! Pray & see what He can do.

Max Lucado

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

Max Lucado

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

Max Lucado

Your requests change history because your prayers change God!

Max Lucado

God's solution is a prayer away!

Max Lucado

You're never without hope, because you're never without prayer.

Max Lucado

After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can be equally familiar to you. With time you can learn where to go for nourishment, where to hide for protection , where to turn for guidance. Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

Max Lucado

The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

Max Lucado

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

Max Lucado

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

Max Lucado

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.