Quotes about prayer
prayer feet doe
Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we're on our knees, but while we're on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
prayer powerful thinking
I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis. Dennis Kucinich
prayer spring bird
Today I will gratefully receive all the gifts that life has to offer me. I will receive the gifts of sunlight and the sound of birds singing and spring showers. I will also be open to receiving from others, whether it is in the form of a material gift, a compliment or a prayer. Deepak Chopra
prayer expected ifs
Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered. Edgar Cayce
prayer mean self
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .
prayer answers asking
For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.
prayer meditation speak
Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.
prayer engagement eating
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick. Elizabeth McCracken
prayer wish praying-to-god
Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
prayer vanity wish
I do not know What kind of my obedience I should tender. More than my all is nothing; nor my prayers Are not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes More worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes Are all I can return. William Shakespeare
prayer heart steel
Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel, Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe. All many be well.
prayer nymphs hamlet-and-ophelia
Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!
prayer heaven grace
If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.
prayer sacrifice expectations
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and blameless prayer-if ever I wished a righteous wish-I am rewarded now. To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth. Mr. Rochester: Because you delight in sacrifice. Jane: Sacrifice! What do I sacrifice? Famine for food, expectation for content. To be privileged to put my arms round what I value-to press my lips to what I love-to repose on what I trust: is that to make a sacrifice? If so, then certainly I delight in sacrifice. Charlotte Bronte
prayer wind liberty
I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing.
prayer excuse good-work
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others. Charles Caleb Colton
prayer hypocrisy time-flies
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist! Charles Studd
prayer two people
[Prayer] is the link between God's inexhaustible resources and people’s needs...God is the source of power, but we are the instrument He uses to link the two together. Charles Stanley
prayer talking want
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."
prayer voice avalanches
God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
prayer want arms
He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.
prayer essence meditation
The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
prayer heart people
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
prayer personality moments
Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.
prayer thinking order
Stop for a minute and think about how you typically interact with God. If prayer time is dominated by your own talking, some adjustments may be in order. Just as the Lord spoke to David, God also has many things to say to you, if you'll simply let Him speak.
prayer determined life-is
Your life is going to be determined by your prayer life.
prayer voice discipleship
His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
prayer flesh gods-will
God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
prayer heart mind
God wants us to seek Him more than anything else, even more than we seek answers to prayer. When we come to God in prayer, sometimes our hearts are so full of what we want that we leave God out. Our minds become consumed with the gift rather than the giver.
prayer weight length
True prayer is measured by weight, not by length Charles Spurgeon
prayer wheels providence
Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.
prayer heart giving
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.
prayer spring born
All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.