Quotes about prayer
prayer struggle helping
I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times. Aaron Rodgers
prayer book years
So I went in front of the judge, and I had my St. Jude prayer book in my pocket and my St. Jude medal. And I'm standing there and that judge said I was found guilty, so he sentenced me to what the law prescribed: one to 14 years. Aaron Neville
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.
prayer school done
Spread out your petition before God, and then say, "Thy will, not mine, be done." The sweetest lesson I have learned in God's school is to let the Lord choose for me.
prayer moral praying
The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals. Duke of Wellington
prayer doe language
Everyone prays in their own language, and there is no language that God does not understand. Duke Ellington
prayer tears special
I offered up a special prayer, a prayer which came with tears and anguish, that some way would open up for me to use what talents I possessed for my fellow workers, for the poor. Dorothy Day
prayer believe people
Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer?
prayer giving church
If you are rushed for time, sow time and you will reap time. Go to church and spend a quiet hour in prayer. You will have more time than ever and your work will get done. Sow time with the poor. Sit and listen to them, give them your time lavishly. You will reap time a hundredfold.
prayer journey goes-on
With prayer, one can go on cheerfully and even happily. Without prayer, how grim a journey!
prayer love-you heart
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow travelers, fellow sufferers. I do not want to add one least straw to the burden you already carry. My prayer from day to day is that God will so enlarge my heart that I will see you all, and live with you all, in His love.
prayer answers machines
Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects. Dora Russell
prayer quiet form
Quiet, deep breath after any prayer is another form of Amen. Anne Lamott
prayer heart
Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer.