Quotes about prayer
prayer purpose purpose-of-god
Prayer is aligning ourselves with the purposes of God. E. Stanley Jones
prayer mean praying
Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you.
prayer cooperation boat
Prayer is surrender--surr ender to the will of God and cooperation with that will. If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God.
prayer religion world
No statistical proofs exist that prayer reduces illness and mortality, except perhaps through a psychogenic enhancement of the immune system; if it were otherwise the whole world would pray continuously. E. O. Wilson
prayer school perfect
A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam. Doug Larson
prayer war animal
Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption? Donald E. Westlake
prayer writing editing
Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation. Donald Barthelme
prayer sin strategy
Prayer is a practical strategy, the gaining of temporal advantage in the capital markets of Sin and Remission. Don DeLillo
prayer struggle europe
The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day. Don Howe
prayer eye sacrifice
The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. Dwight D. Eisenhower
prayer laughter lord
Lord, lord, lord. Protect me from the consequences of the above prayer. Douglas Adams
prayer gains chance
Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him. Dale Evans
prayer wings generations
The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer. Craig Mundie
prayer wine dark
Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine. Countee Cullen
prayer children reading
I will now teach my son Increase (and others of my children) the way of raising a lesson out of every verse in his reading of the Bible; and of turning it into a Prayer; and engage him (and them) unto a daily Course in reading the Bible in such a way Cotton Mather
prayer sleep moon
Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face. Clive Barker
prayer goal enough
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you. Douglas Coupland
prayer wish together
What is prayer but a wish for the events in your life to string together to form a story -- something that makes some sense of events you know have meaning.
prayer world littles
The world knows little of the works wrought by prayer. Dwight L. Moody
prayer great-work ifs
My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer; we have got to be closeted with God.
prayer rushing never-settle
Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot.
prayer thinking use
Next to the wonder of seeing my Savior will be, I think, the wonder that I made so little use of the power of prayer.
prayer people criticism
How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.
prayer careful prayerful
Careful for nothing, prayerful for everything, thankful for anything.
prayer cutting men
Some men’s prayers need to be cut short at both ends and set on fire in the middle.
prayer desire scripture
We must have a warrant for our prayers. If we have some great desire, we must search the scriptures to find if it be right to ask it.
prayer love-one-another ifs
If we do not love one another, we certainly shall not have much power with God in prayer.
prayer doubt may
If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.
prayer spirit god-is-with-us
Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.
prayer
He who kneels the most, stands the best.
prayer law grace
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.
prayer silly mean
Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.
prayer thinking people
Some people think God does not like to be troubled with our constant coming and asking. The way to trouble God is not to come at all.