Quotes about prayer
prayer offense-and-defense weapons
The vote is a power, a weapon of offense and defense, a prayer. Carrie Chapman Catt
prayer believe miracle
Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard of her. Bernard Berenson
prayer praying
She would have been in here praying with me.
prayer men hands
What are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend? Alfred Lord Tennyson
prayer long temptation
Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation. Aldous Huxley
prayer stink prayer-works
Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
prayer done lord
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done but their own.
prayer men two
Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime. Albert Pike
prayer believe law
Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish. Albert Einstein
prayer world spirit
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. Alexander Herzen
prayer children boys
For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle! Adolf Hitler
prayer home years
Never in these long years have we offered any other prayer but this: Lord, grant to our people peace at home, and grant and preserve to them peace from the foreign foe!
prayer war hero
May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.
prayer past listening
Prayer doesn't work because someone out there is listening, it works because someone in here is listening. I've paid attention. I've pictured what I want to happen in my life. I've meditated extensively on my family, my future, my past actions and what did and didn't work for me about them. Adam Savage
prayer heart christian-inspirational
Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue. Adam Clarke
prayer atheism decree
What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree. Abraham Lincoln
prayer mean sunshine
Personal prayer, it seems to me, is one of the simplest necessities of life, as basic to the individual as sunshine, food and water-and at times, of course, more so. By prayer I mean an effort to get in touch with the Infinite. We know that our prayers are imperfect. Of course they are. We are imperfect human beings. A thousand experiences have convinced me beyond room of doubt that prayer multiplies the strength of the individual and brings within the scope of his capabilities almost any conceivable objective. Dwight D. Eisenhower
prayer meditation awareness
To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer. Dalai Lama
prayer happy-life built
Prayer alone will not make a happy life. A happy life must be built. You must act.
prayer doe humans
Peace does not come through prayer, we human beings must create peace.
prayer hatred inner-peace
Whether we consider the individual, family, local, national or international level, peace must arise from inner peace. For example, making prayers for peace while continuing to harbor anger is futile. Training the mind and overcoming your anger is much more effective than mere prayer. Anger, hatred and jealousy never solve problems, only affection, concern and respect can do that.
prayer terror-attacks people
Like many Americans my thoughts and prayers are with the people of London. My deepest sympathies are extended to those who lost a loved one in the recent terror attacks. Doc Hastings
prayer tricky
Prayer's a very tricky business. Dodie Smith
prayer people able
I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people. Desmond Tutu
prayer journey reality
The journey of prayer is nothing more or less than a gradual awakening to the reality of recognizing what is already there. Delia Smith
prayer blessed thinking
Whoever prays is certainly saved. He who does not is certainly damned. All the blessed have been saved by prayer. All the damned have been lost through not praying. If they had prayed they would not have been lost. And this is, and will be their greatest torment in hell: to think how easily they might have been saved, just by asking God for His grace, but that now it is too late - their time of prayer is gone. Alphonsus Liguori
prayer temptation impossible
Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.
prayer flower land
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.
prayer praying
He who prays most receives most.
prayer soul saint
All souls in hell are there because they did not pray. All the saints sanctified themselves by prayer.
prayer order giving
Let us remember the devil labors hard to disturb us at the time of recollection in order to make us abandon it. Let him then who omits mental prayer on account of distractions be persuaded that he gives delight to the devil.
prayer mean temptation
Were you to ask what are the means of overcoming temptations, I would answer: The first means is prayer; the second is prayer; the third is prayer; and you should you ask me a thousand times, I would repeat the same.
prayer perfection temptation
It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection.