Quotes about prayer
prayer exercise men
To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men? Bruce Willis
prayer believe said
You said their prayer - is this the religion you believe in, then?" "I believe in them all." Vin frowned. "None of them contradict each other?" Sazed smiled. "Oh, often and frequently they do. But, I respect the truths behind them all. Brandon Sanderson
prayer children parent
It is as natural and reasonable for a dependent creature to apply to its Creator for what it needs, as for a child thus to solicit the aid of a parent who is believed to have the disposition and ability to bestow what it needs. Archibald Alexander
prayer rain sky
Rain is used as white noise when God is disgusted by too much prayer, when the sky is stuffed to bursting with the noise of what people need. Ben Marcus
prayer kneeling standing
A lot of kneeling keeps one in good standing. Barbara Johnson
prayer transactions
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. Barbara Kingsolver
prayer people and-love
As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people. Arthur Middleton
prayer evil church
The evil of the Church is the doing of Church work in a spirit of business, something to be got through. The only way to avoid this is for the priest to be instant in prayer. If he is not, he will lose that touch of the supernatural, without which he has no right to be a priest at all.
prayer asking helping
Prayer is not asking God to do something, it's asking God to help YOU do something Dennis Prager
prayer heart poverty
The richness of God’s Word ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
prayer community baths
Intercessory prayer is the purifying bath into which the individual and the community must enter every day.
prayer father faithful
True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its dangers. In the last resort it is immaterial whether we pray in the open street or in the secrecy of our chambers, whether briefly or lenghtily, in the Litany of the Church, or with the sigh of one who knows not what he should pray for. True prayer does not depend either on the individual or the whole body of the faithful, but solely upon the knowledge that our Heavenly Father knows our needs.
prayer simple praying
The more deeply we grow into the psalms and the more often we pray them as our own, the more simple and rich will our prayer become.
prayer odds vanity
Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity.
prayer school great-schools
The Psalter is the great school of prayer.
prayer heart important
If we are to pray aright, perhaps it is quite necessary that we pray contrary to our own heart. Not what we want to pray is important, but what God wants us to pray. The richness of the Word of God ought to determine our prayer, not the poverty of our heart.
prayer father heart
The right way to pray is to stretch out our hands and ask of One who we know has the heart of a Father.
prayer praying christ
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly.
prayer earth faces
As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth, Efraim Zuroff
prayer sacrifice atheism
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail. Aristotle
prayer wicked-person affliction
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. Ben Jonson
prayer heaven praying
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
prayer grief wish
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
prayer hymns demand
Prayer is a cry of distress, a demand for help, a hymn of love. Alexis Carrel
prayer self energy
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy.
prayer real men
Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.
prayer reality understanding
The influence of prayer on the human mind and body is as demonstrable as that of secreting glands. Its results can be measured in terms of increased physical buoyancy, greater intellectual vigor, moral stamina, and a deeper understanding of the realities underlying human relationship.
prayer giving mind
Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.
prayer selfish silly
If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquillity of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself. He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunders. He develops a sense of moral obligation, intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace...
prayer heaven sublime
in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! Alexandre Dumas
prayer mean men
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
prayers span time
I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come. Gloria Gaither
prayer evil soul
The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.