Quotes about prayer
prayer bridges giving
This is my prayer for all of us—'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. . . . Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. . . . Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow. Gordon B. Hinckley
prayer home motherhood
The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.
prayer real praying
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.
prayer father answers
Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.
prayer real father
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.
prayer wine moon
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. Geraldine Brooks
prayer soul draws
Prayer draws us near to our own souls. Herman Melville
prayer father eye
Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea.
prayer men might
If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.
prayer religion church
The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad. Henry David Thoreau
prayer sick doe
God does not hear the prayers of a Jew. Jerry Falwell
prayer religion atheism
If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.
prayer believe answers
I do not believe that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew
prayer community listening
A growing community must integrate three elements: a life of silent prayer, a life of service and above all of listening to the poor, and a community life through which all its members can grow in their own gift. Jean Vanier
prayer garden doors
Prayer is like a secret garden made up of silence and rest and inwardness. But there are a thousand and one doors into this garden and we all have to find our own.
prayer dancer together
I smoke crack. I get all my dancers together and we do a prayer. Jim Gaffigan
prayer blessing today
My prayer is, let me be a blessing to someone or something today. Jean Houston
prayer mean thinking
Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don't do any good, but they don't necessarily do any harm. It's touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I've got my just desserts. Christopher Hitchens
prayer ignorance sacrifice
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation, but the wrong culprit. Human sacrifices were made preeminently in times of epidemics, useless prayers were uttered, bogus miracles attested to, and scapegoats - such as Jews or heretics or witches - hunted down and burned.
prayer impossible
It is impossible to have a prayer without power. Gary Zukav
prayer next-level levels
Amen is not the end of a prayer, it just gets us ready to go to the next level. Gary Busey
prayer men doe
Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers. Fulton J. Sheen
prayer long church
It is a long established principle of the Church never to completely drop from her public worship any ceremony, object or prayer which once occupied a place in that worship.
prayer feet meditation
In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.
prayer world next
Fasting detaches you from this world. Prayer reattaches you to the next world.
prayer exercise two
It is not particularly difficult to find thousands who will spend two or three hours a day in exercising, but if you ask them to bend their knees to God in five minutes of prayer they protest that it is too long.
prayer relief casting
Prayer is helplessness casting itself on Power, infirmity leaning on Strength, misery reaching to Mercy, and a prisoner clamoring for Relief.
prayer talking silence
Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.
prayer needs judgment
Mel Gibson doesn't need your judgment, he needs your prayers. Jim Caviezel
prayer angel way
We are each others angels in the way that we answer each others prayers and we can also make each others lives miserable. Jewel
prayer treasure may
The Lord's Prayer is short and mysterious, and, like the treasures of the Spirit, full of wisdom and latent senses: it is not improper to draw forth those excellencies which are intended and signified by every petition, that by so excellent an authority we may know what it is lawful to beg of God. Jeremy Taylor
prayer meditation soul
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation being the soul of prayer and the intention of our spirit.
prayer garden office
The private devotions and secret offices of religion are like the refreshing of a garden with the distilling and petty drops of a waterpot; but addressed from the temple, they are like ram from heaven.