Quotes about prayer
prayer potatoes milk
Prayer is good, but when baked potatoes and milk are needed, prayer will not supply their place. Brigham Young
prayer thinking firsts
The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.- Brennan Manning
prayer men essence
In essence, there is only one thing God asks of us - that we be men and women of prayer, people for whom God is everything and for whom God is enough. That is the root of peace. We have that peace when the gracious God is all we seek. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.
prayer firsts acts-of-love
Prayer is first and foremost an act of love
prayer crazy fire-of-love
The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)
prayer love-you past
I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.
prayer real simple
I learned by experience that you can change your circumstance. It's as simple as the serenity prayer; it's a very, very real thing. Bonnie Raitt
prayer mind-blowing islam
The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer. Barack Obama
prayer wine pointless
Prayers without wine are perfectly pointless. Aristophanes
prayer thinking presence-of-mind
One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let it wander too far at other times. You should keep it strictly in the presence of God; and being accustomed to think of Him often, you will find it easy to keep your mind calm in the time of prayer, or at least to recall it from its wanderings. Brother Lawrence
prayer gods-presence
Prayer is nothing else than a sense of God's presence
prayer mean simple
I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only to persevere in His holy presence, wherein I keep myself by a simple attention, and a general fond regard to GOD, which I may call an actual presence of GOD, or, to speak better, an habitual, silent, and secret conversation of the soul with GOD, which often causes me joys and raptures inwardly, and sometimes also outwardly, so great that I am forced to use means to moderate them, and prevent their appearance to others.
prayer simplicity speak
We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.
prayer heart exercise
A little lifting up of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, an interior act of adoration, even though made on the march and with sword in hand, are prayers which, short though they may be, are nevertheless very pleasing to God, and far from making a soldier lose his courage on the most dangerous occasions, bolster it. Let him then think of God as much as possible so that he will gradually become accustomed to this little but holy exercise; no one will notice it and nothing is easier than to repeat often during the day these little acts of interior adoration.
prayer heart remembrance
Lift up your hearts to Him, sometimes even at your meals, and when you are in company; the least little remembrance will always be acceptable to Him. You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we are aware.
prayer heart remembrance
A little lifting of the heart suffices; a little remembrance of God, one act of inward worship are prayers which, however short, are nevertheless acceptable to God.
prayer blessing past
That his prayer was nothing else but a sense of the presence of GOD, his soul being at that time insensible to everything but Divine love: and that when the appointed times of prayer were past, he found no difference, because he still continued with GOD, praising and blessing Him with all his might, so that he passed his life in continual joy; yet hoped that GOD would give him somewhat to suffer, when he should grow stronger.
prayer thinking needs
You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.
prayer kitchen doe
The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees.
prayer heaven ardent
Prayer ardent opens heaven. Edward Young
prayer heaven path
Praise, more divine than prayer; prayer points our ready path to heaven; praise is already there.
prayer heart differences
To each his own way and his own prayer. God does not take us at our word. He looks deep into our hearts. It is not the ceremonies or rituals that make a difference, but whether our hearts are sufficiently pure or not. Elif Safak
prayer needs answers
- Every time someone cries out in prayer and I can't answer, I feel guilty about not being God. - That doesn't sound good. - I understand that I have a problem, and I know what I need to do to solve it, all right? I'm working on it. Of course, Harry hadn't said what the solution was. The solution, obviously, was to hurry up and become God. Eliezer Yudkowsky
prayer men people
Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves. Elie Wiesel
prayer tears stories
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
prayer few-words silent
Lead us in a few words of silent prayer. Bill Peterson
prayer cancer two
This was our last stop. This was it. We had those two embryos that we had banked prior to learning about the breast cancer, and with the medicine she was on, this was our last effort. The prayers were answered. Bill Rancic
prayer want unanswered
Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us. Bill Johnson
prayer enemy praying
The biggest enemy to prayer is praying for something you already have.
prayer catholic church
I grew up a Catholic and I dont want to talk badly about the Catholic Church but theres a lot of routine stuff going on. You say the same prayers, you sit, you kneel, whatever. Bernhard Langer
prayer hands soul
A poem is a hand, a hook, a prayer. It is a soul in action. Edward Hirsch
prayer mean soul
Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'. Edith Stein
prayer catholic longing
My longing for truth was a single prayer.