Quotes about prayer
prayer victory gold
Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me with room. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success, or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray, that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will always be answered. Og Mandino
prayer thinking devil
We can never know for certain where our prayers are likely to go, nor from whom the answers will come. Just when we think we are at our nearest to God, we could be assisting the Devil. Norman Mailer
prayer men marketing
A recent government publication on the marketing of cabbage contains, according to one report, 26,941 words. It is noteworthy in this regard that the Gettysburg Address contains a mere 279 words while the Lord's Prayer comprises but 67. Norman Ralph Augustine
prayer father thinking
The discussion of prayer is so great that it requires the Father to reveal it, His firstborn Word to teach it, and the Spirit to enable us to think and speak rightly of so great a subject. Origen
prayer angel watches
When anyone prays, the angels that minister to God and watch over mankind gather round about him and join with him in prayer.
prayer voice use
The physical voice we use in prayer need not be great nor startling; even should we not lift up any great cry or shout, God will yet hear us.
prayer giving office
My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction. Oliver Cromwell
prayer sunday loss
To us, from the beginning, Nature has been but a poor plastic thing, to be toyed with this way or that, as man happens to please his deity or not; to go to church or not; to say his prayers right or not; to travel on a Sunday or not.Was it possible for us in an instant to see Nature as she is-the flowing vestment of an unchanging reality? Olive Schreiner
prayer blessed asks
There is no prayer so blessed as the prayer which asks for nothing. O. J. Simpson
prayer philosophy thinking
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion. Novalis
prayer angel feelings
Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling. Norman Vincent Peale
prayer blessing giving
Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.
prayer way helping
The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve theirs. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. The best way to respond to wrong is to do what's right. The better we know ourselves the less we'll criticize others. The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
prayer attitude believe
God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will is done, and true faith is to believe that what happened has happened for the best. If one does not take that attitude, he is setting his personal desire against the wisdom of God. Oftentimes we confuse with faith merely that which we desire.
prayer problem should
The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
prayer successful today
Today any successful and competent businessman will employ the latest and best-tested methods in production, distribution, and administration. Many are discovering that one of the greatest of all efficiency methods is prayer power.
prayer people doe
Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
prayer telegrams
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. Emile M. Cioran
prayer men civilized
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
prayer communication inward
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
prayer devil roaring
Those who are preparing for the coming of Christ should be sober, and watch unto prayer, for our adversary, the Devil, goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour; whom we are to resist steadfast in the faith. Ellen G. White
prayer divine
In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.
prayer soul unbroken
Unceasing prayer is the unbroken union of the soul with God, so that life from God flows into our life; and from our life, purity and holiness flow back to God.
prayer heart humble
Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.
prayer singing worship
Singing is as much an act of worship as is prayer.
prayer heart order
Prayer is the opening of the heart to God as to a friend. Not that it is necessary in order to make known to God what we are, but in order to enable us to receive Him. Prayer does not bring God down to us, but brings us up to Him.
prayer soul body
If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee. Epictetus
prayer mean men
Prayer is the little implement Through which Men reach Where Presence - is denied them. They fling their Speech By means of it - in God's Ear - If then He hear - This sums the Apparatus Comprised in Prayer Emily Dickinson
prayer fall snow
That no Flake of [snow] fall on you or them - is a wish that would be a Prayer, were Emily not a Pagan.
prayer men littles
Prayer is the little implement through which men reach; where presence is denied them.
prayer war vengeance
I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
prayer sky heaven
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.
prayer pain heart
What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!