Famous Quotes & Sayings

Max Lucado

After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world, it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can be equally familiar to you. With time you can learn where to go for nourishment, where to hide for protection , where to turn for guidance. Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

Max Lucado

The greater your cares, the more genuine your prayers

Max Lucado

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself.

Max Lucado

What causes us to think of prayer as the last option rather than the first? I can think of two reasons: feelings of independence and feelings of insignificance.

Max Lucado

Our prayers may be awkward. Our attempts may be feeble. But since the power of prayer is in the One who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.

Max Lucado

That's what I'm hoping we can all do, is come together in a spirit of prayer.

Max Lucado

Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world.

May Sarton

Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.

Maureen McGovern

To me, singing is basically a form of prayer. I get this great joy when I`m singing - whatever I`m singing. I missed it when I left it.

Matthew Henry

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

Matthew Henry

God's promises are to be our pleas in prayer.

Matthew Henry

We read of preaching the Word out of season, but we do not read of praying out of season, for that is never out of season.

Matthew Henry

Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information, yet we must by our prayers give him honor.

Matthew Henry

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

Matthew Henry

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time.

Matthew Henry

Days of trouble must be days of prayer.

Matthew Henry

God's Word must be the guide of your desires and the ground of your expectations in prayer.

Matthew Henry

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

Matthew Henry

The best we can say to God in prayer, is what He has said to us.

Matthew Henry

It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers, that we may not unsay them in our practice.

Matthew Henry

Those that forget to attend God with their praises may perhaps be compelled to attend him with their prayers.

Matthew Henry

The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.

Matt Cullen

First and foremost, prayer is so helpful. But I think that you need to face your fears head on. Don't avoid them or say that you're not scared. Acknowledge it and be honest about it. It's normal to get nervous about a big game or to get nervous about an important event in your life.

Meg Cabot

Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well).

Marilynne Robinson

For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers.

Marilynne Robinson

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.

Pablo Neruda

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence...

Nikos Kazantzakis

Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break.

N. T. Wright

The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy

Morris Graves

It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water.

Mignon McLaughlin

We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.

Mignon McLaughlin

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

John Ruskin

Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer.