Quotes about pray
prayer break-through discipline
The disciplines of prayer, silence, and contemplation as practiced by the monastics and mystics are precisely that - stopping the noise, slowing down, and becoming still so that God can break through all our activity and noise to speak to us. Prayer serves to put all parts of our lives in God's presence, reminding us how holy our humanity really is. Jim Wallis
prayer miracle wake-up
And my one prayer to God, the miracle worker, was that I would wake up lighter-skinned, Lupita Nyong'o
prayer hands feet
Prayer may be elevating if combined with work, and they who labor with head, hands or feet have faith and are generally quite sure of an immediate and favorable reply. Luther Burbank
prayer thinking games
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. Matt Cullen
prayer differences perspective
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). Meg Cabot
prayer writing praying
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers. Marilynne Robinson
praying intimacy praying-for-you
That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.
prayer grateful dark
I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
prayer joining solemn
The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it. Karl Philipp Moritz
prayer artist grace
The grace to be a beginner is always the best prayer for an artist. Julia Cameron
prayer responsibility scary
Answered prayers are scary. They imply responsibility. You asked for it. Now that you've got it, what are you going to do? Why else the cautionary phrase Watch out for what you pray for; you might just get it?
prayers thoughts tragedy
This was a tragedy and our thoughts and our prayers are with the families.
prayer
It was just kind of a prayer gathering, not really Mass,
prayer patriotic president
I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers. Gerald R. Ford
prayer tables hospitality
Hospitality invites to prayer before it checks credentials, welcomes to the table before administering the entrance exam. Patrick Henry
prayer dancing might
It did not look like the work of God, but it might have represented the handicraft of a God with a joyous sense of humor, a dancing God who loved mischief as much as prayer, and playfulness as much as mischief. Pat Conroy
prayer space giving
God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.
prayer mean praying
Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer. Juanes
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 amazed
As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed! Neal A. Maxwell