Famous Quotes & Sayings

God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.

Juanes

Praying doesn't mean repeating a prayer.

Oscar Wilde

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Oswald Chambers

One of the most subtle burdens God ever puts on us as saints is this burden of discernment concerning other souls. He reveals things in order that we may take the burden of these souls before Him and form the mind of Christ about them. It is not that we bring God into touch with our minds, but that we rouse ourselves until God is able to convey His mind to us about the one for whom we intercede.

Oswald Chambers

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

Oswald Chambers

Watch your motive before God; have no other motive in prayer than to know Him.

Oswald Chambers

The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.

Oswald Chambers

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

Oswald Chambers

Never say you will pray about a thing; pray about it.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer is God's answer to our poverty, not a power we exercise to obtain an answer.

Oswald Chambers

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Oswald Chambers

One great effect of prayer is that it enables the soul to command the body. By obedience I make my body submissive to my soul, but prayer puts my soul in command of my body.

Oswald Chambers

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer; he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.

Learned Hand

We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.

Leigh Hunt

For the most part, we should pray rather in aspiration than petition, rather by hoping than requesting; in which spirit also we may breathe a devout wish for a blessing on others upon occasions when it might be presumptuous to beg it.

Joe Meno

When she cries, it is quiet, tearless, almost completely imperceptible: one more unheard prayer.

Jodi Picoult

Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the land.

Jodi Picoult

The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

John Greenleaf Whittier

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

John Greenleaf Whittier

The simple heart that freely asks in love, obtains.

Patti Smith

I studied the Bible seriously until I was young teenager. It was always part of our home education: talking about the Bible, arguing about the Bible, interpreting it. So I don't connect prayer or scriptures with any particular religion so it's not a contradiction in my life.

Patti Smith

In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

Pat Robertson

I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

Pat Robertson

Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.

Ovid

When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer, But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb, We trample fear beneath our feet, and live Without a fear of evil yet to come.

Marya Hornbacher

One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in my memory, with the dark womb of church: the chant, the fugue of prayer, the strange erotic energy that carving a very small cross into my thigh with a nail had brought.

Mark Haddon

One person looks around and sees a universe created by a god who watches over its long unfurling, marking the fall of sparrows and listening to the prayers of his finest creation. Another person believes that life, in all its baroque complexity, is a chemical aberration that will briefly decorate the surface of a ball of rock spinning somewhere among a billion galaxies. And the two of them could talk for hours and find no great difference between one another, for neither set of beliefs make us kinder or wiser.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Love is the only prayer I know.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till, by the strength of prayer and sacrifice, the spirit of love shall have overcome .

Oswald Chambers

Worship and intercession must go together, the one is impossible without the other. Intercession means that we rouse ourselves up to get the mind of Christ about the one for whom we pray.

Oswald Chambers

It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer

Oswald Chambers

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.