Quotes about pray
prayer long looks
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at. Thomas Brooks
prayer red hurricanes
If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers. Tim McGraw
prayer men hands
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face. Thomas Watson
prayer faithless
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
prayer father breathing
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
prayer doors people
The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.
prayer angel prison
The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
prayer offering names
Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.
prayer heart likes
Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.
prayer angel men
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
prayer heart hands
Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
prayer arrows grace
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
prayer thinking soul
We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.
prayer men soul
The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.
prayer action passing
Prayer is faith passing into action.
prayer writing done
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.
prayer doors going-away
I once heard someone say that prayer is more than words. It's a stance you take, a position you claim. You throw your body against the door to keep the demons from advancing and stay put until they go away. Regina Brett
prayer real believe
From now on, I pray like I mean it. No more hitting SEND over and over. It's changed my life. It has freed me from fear and opened up endless avenues for me as a writer, radio host, parent, wife, and friend. It has enhanced every relationship I'm in, starting with the most important one: my relationship with God. Real faith isn't praying without ceasing. It's believing that God heard you the first time.
prayer expression attention
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will. Thomas Keating
prayer thinking giving
One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.
prayer roots silence
The root of prayer is interior silence.
prayer play looks
You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.
prayer powerful helping
Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.
prayer doe praying-to-god
Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God. Thomas Chalmers
prayer blessed praying
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up. Thomas Adams
prayer enemy ears
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.
prayer heaven cold
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven .
prayer breathing roots
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
prayer men fire
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
prayer names soul
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
prayer answers cold
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
prayer men dumb
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
prayer heaven secret
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.