Quotes about prayer
prayer firsts fractals
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole. Jonathan Sacks
prayer book self
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
prayer philosophy book
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. Jonathan Safran Foer
prayer memories ifs
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
prayer infinite-intelligence may
If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain. Napoleon Hill
prayer communication infinite-intelligence
FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
prayer biblical sublime
Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. Napoleon Bonaparte
prayer hate men
Your Reverence, I do not hate any man in this world enough to inflict the results of my prayers upon him. Lois McMaster Bujold
prayer moving doors
This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
prayer savages answers
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.
prayer home unapologetic
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic. Lyndon B. Johnson
prayer destiny men
The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.
prayer blessing fans
Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family. Luke Bryan
prayer believe order
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles. Louis D. Brandeis
prayer father believe
I believe in the efficacy of prayer and I have a deep and sorrowful sympathy for one who is without faith. I believe our Father answers every prayer-all prayers-with His matchless, inscrutable wisdom, with infinite compassion and with love. Loretta Young
prayer farewell air
Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky. Lord Byron
prayer father men
Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.
prayer grief tired
... most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak. What is more, they need a steak. Preferably they need it rare, grilled, heavily salted, for that way it is most easily digested, and most quickly turned into the glandular whip their tired adrenals cry for. M. F. K. Fisher
prayer soul bereavement
Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.
prayer worry needs
I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go. Lou Holtz
prayer way answers
God answers prayers, but he doesn't always answer it your way.
prayer sacrifice discipline
Sacrifice, discipline and prayer are essential. We gain strength through God's word. We receive grace from the sacrament. And when we fumble due to sin - and it's gonna happen - confession puts us back on the field.
prayer thinking life-and-death
I can't think of a more wonderful thanksgiving for the life I have had than that everyone should be jolly at my funeral Lord Mountbatten
prayer heart people
A heart-felt prayer is not recitation with the lips. It is a yearning from within which expresses itself in every word, every act, nay every thought of people. Mahatma Gandhi
prayer humility independent
Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility.
prayer animal blessing
It ill becomes us to invoke in our daily prayers the blessings of God, the Compassionate, if we in turn will not practice elementary compassion toward our fellow creatures.
prayer blessing effort
No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it.
prayer may evening
Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening.
prayer silence weapons
My greatest weapon is mute prayer.
prayer philosophy soul
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul.
prayer way answers
God answers prayer in His own way, not ours.
prayer fasting common
Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.
prayer weakness confession
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.