Quotes about prayer
prayer wings water
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing. Annie Dillard
prayer heart hard-work
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.
prayer men depth
At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him. D. Elton Trueblood
prayer blessing fruit
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings. D. A. Carson
prayer people would-be
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
prayer thinking self
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
prayer self our-world
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
prayer blessing drawing
Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
prayer approval reputation
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
prayer worry
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
prayer house devil
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation. Daniel Defoe
prayer angel expression
In freely choosing to serve as the agents of divine purpose, angels are the living expression of the prayer 'Thy will be done.' David Connolly
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 self moments
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer. Andre Gide
prayer rain believe
And I cannot tell you how much I appreciate that because the days are long, the road is hard, the trials are there and I never know when, I have this little gray cloud that's over my head, when it's gonna start raining on me again. And I do need everyone's prayers. But I also believe that we're here for a purpose, and Mitt is prepared. Ann Romney
prayer husband crazy
I get up earlier than my husband and I intentionally spend time in prayer and Bible reading just to focus myself for the day, because the days get crazy. Anne Graham Lotz
prayer artist giving
I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer. Andres Segovia
prayer responsibility focus
Peace comes not because your prayer has been answered exactly as you prayed it, but because you shifted your focus and the burden of responsibility on to Him. Christopher Parkening
prayer giving mind
God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. Anselm of Canterbury
prayer love-is men
Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry. Anouk Aimee
prayer heart past
Adieu! but let me cherish, still, The hope with which I cannot part. Contempt may wound, and coldness chill, But still it lingers in my heart. And who can tell but Heaven, at last, May answer all my thousand prayers, And bid the future pay the past With joy for anguish, smiles for tears? Anne Bronte
prayer names giving
I pray everywhere--in the shower, on a plane, in traffic, you name it. When I feel like I have had enough, I will literally take a knee, bow my head, and beg God for help and strength. I know not to beg Him for patience, because then He gives me situations in which I have to grow more patient; I learned that lesson! And if I am having a wonderful day, I will stop to thank Him. It's a relationship. Angie Harmon
prayer heart choices
When an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love. Amy Carmichael
prayer soul relief
It is a solemn thing to find oneself drawn out in prayer which knows no relief till the soul it is burdened with is born. It is no less solemn afterwards, until Christ is formed in them.