Quotes about prayer
prayer school math
As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. Cokie Roberts
prayer heart grace
A prayer may chance to rise From one whose heart lives in the grace of God. A prayer from any other is unheeded. Dante Alighieri
prayer worry worst
Worrying is just a prayer for the worst possible scenario. Daphne Oz
prayer intelligent men
God, once imagined to be an omnipresent force throughout the whole world of nature and man. has been increasingly tending to seem omniabsent. Everywhere, intelligent and educated people rely more and more on purely secular and scientific techniques for the solution of their problems. As science advances, belief in divine miracles and the efficacy of prayer becomes fainter and fainter. Corliss Lamont
prayer rest-of-life vanishing
More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie. Corrie Ten Boom
prayer people christian-inspirational
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
prayer safety use
To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
prayer want groups
When you want to work for God start a committee. When you want to work with God start a prayer group
prayer wings bird
What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.
prayer school years
I prayed to dispel my fear, until suddenly, and I do not know how the idea came to me, I began to pray for others. I prayed for everyone who came into my thoughts - - people with whom I had traveled, those who had been in prison with me, my school friends of years ago. I do not know how long I continued my prayer, but this I do know - - my fear was gone! Interceding for others had released me!
prayer fall heart
A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to stay down, lift your heart toward heaven, and like a hungry beggar, ask that it be filled. You may be pushed down. You may be kept from rising. But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
prayer hypocrite hymns
We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life. Dwight L. Moody
prayer taken serious-things
Prayer is a serious thing. We may be taken at our words.
prayer men heaven
How far away is Heaven? It is not so far as some imagine. It wasn't very far from Daniel. It was not so far off that Elijah's prayer and those of others could not be heard there. Men full of the Spirit can look right into heaven.
prayer heart long
There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.
prayer heart hands
Finally, it is my most fervent prayer to that Almighty Being before whom I now stand, and who has kept us in His hands from the infancy of our Republic to the present day, that He will so overrule all my intentions and actions and inspire the hearts of my fellow-citizens that we may be preserved from dangers of all kinds and continue forever a united and happy people. Andrew Jackson
prayer curiosity saving
This truth may be handled either sinfully or profitably; sinfully as when it is treated on only to satisfy curiosity, and to keep up a mere barren speculative dispute.... This point of election... is not to be agitated in a verbal and contentious way, but in a saving way, to make us tremble and to set us upon a more diligent and close striving with God in prayer, and all other duties. Anthony Burgess
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 england whim
I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer. David Platt
prayer purpose knows
The primary purpose of prayer is not to get something, but to know Someone.
prayer views should-have
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure motives, and all the time be looked upon by most of those to whom our lives are devoted as having some sinister object in view. Disinterested labor - benevolence - is so out of their line of thought, that many look upon us as having some ulterior object in view; but He who died for us, and Whom we ought to copy, did more for us than we can do for any one else. He endured the contradiction of sinners. We should have grace to follow in His steps. David Livingstone
prayer heart grace
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way! Alexander Pope
prayer prayers sad situation thoughts
Our thoughts and prayers go out to them, ... It's a sad situation for everybody.
prayers thoughts
Our thoughts and prayers go out to Coach,
prayers sad thoughts
Our thoughts and prayers are with his family. This is a sad day for the Tiger-Cats family.