Quotes about prayer
prayer despair helping
The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable. Anne Lamott
prayer praying ifs
I've seen prayers answered. But often, in my experiences, if you get what you pray for, you've really shortchanged yourself.
prayer thinking light
The difference between you and God is that God doesn't think He's you.
prayer believe mean
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence.
prayer two helping
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
prayer believe simple
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
prayer car church
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
prayer character years
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
prayer honesty kids
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.
prayer grief believe
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.
prayer thinking soul
The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love. Ann Voskamp
prayer worry action
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
prayer reading oatmeal
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
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 accepting angels-and-demons
God, grant me strength to accept those things I cannot change. Dan Brown
prayer heart autumn
Even a man who's pure in heart And says his prayers by night, May become a wolf when the wolfbane blooms And the autumn moon is bright. Curt Siodmak
prayer reading believe
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about. Dallas Willard
prayer people mind
And God has set up prayer in such a way that, if you want to explain it away, you can. That's the human mind. God set it up like that for a reason, which is this: God ordained that people should be governed in the end by what they want.
prayer talking together
Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
prayer father thinking
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life.
prayer heart bottles
seven wonders of the world and I have to ask for an eighth fill a bottle with some prayers and spend them on hope create an easy route just so I can complicate send my heart down that slippery slope David Levithan
prayer people half
When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.' David Letterman