Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

Noise and crowds have a way of siphoning our energy and distracting our attention, making prayer an added chore rather than a comforting relief

Charles R. Swindoll

If you are having difficulty loving or relating to an individual, take him to God. Bother the Lord with this person. Don't you be bothered with him - leave him at the throne.

Ayn Rand

You don't have to see through the eyes of others, hold onto yours, stand on your own judgment, you know that what is, is–say it aloud, like the holiest of prayers, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Ben Gibbard

And it came to me then that every plan is a tiny prayer to father time.

Carl Sandburg

Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a steel spike.

C. S. Lewis

Almost certainly God is not in time. His life does not consist of moments one following another...Ten-thirty-- and every other moment from the beginning of the world--is always Present for Him. If you like to put it this way, He has all eternity in which to listen to the split second of prayer put up by a pilot as his plane crashes in flames.

C. S. Lewis

In worship, God imparts himself to us.

C. S. Lewis

The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'

C. S. Lewis

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

C. S. Lewis

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

C. S. Lewis

If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house.

C. S. Lewis

For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer does not change God; it changes me.

C. S. Lewis

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

Bryant H. McGill

Every positive thought is a silent prayer which will change your life.

Carol Ann Duffy

Poetry and prayer are very similar

Carol Ann Duffy

What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

Carol Ann Duffy

She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.

Carol Ann Duffy

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.

Obviously, our prayers are with (Robinson) regardless of all the other issues.

Ed Markey

My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy.

Deepak Chopra

Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.

Deepak Chopra

Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.

Dionne Warwick

Before I put on my make up, I say a little prayer for you.

David James

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

William Temple

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't.

William Temple

If your prayer is selfish, the answer will be something that will rebuke your selfishness. You may not recognize it as having come at all, but it is sure to be there.

Be not the slave of your moods, but their master. But if you are so angry, so depressed and so sore that your spirit cannot find deliverance and peace even in prayer, then quickly go and give some pleasure to someone lowly or sorrowful, or to a guilty or innocent sufferer! Sacrifice yourself, your talent, your time, your rest to another, to one who has to bear a heavier load than you - and your unhappy mood will dissolve into a blessed, contented submission to God.

There is but one power which heals—that is God. The state or condition through which the healing takes place is the confidence of the heart. By some this state is reached through pills, powders, and physicians. By others through hygiene, fasting, and prayer. By others through direct perception.

I beseech you, one and all, to add your prayers to mine to the end that war and bloodshed cease, and that love, friendship, peace and unity reign in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully.

She would have been in here praying with me.

Bruce Willis

Instead of waiting until crisis problems develop which result in panic praying for others, we need to trust God to protect them as we pray Spirit-led, thoughtful, caring prayers before the problems overwhelm them, and they are unable to cope. We need to engage in major battles, not just minor skirmishes, moving from surface praying to in-depth praying. We need to pray both defensively and offensively.