Quotes about prayer
prayer trying numinous
prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous. Madeleine L'Engle
prayer self way
The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way.
prayer heart needs
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
prayer monologues interiors
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.
prayer home self
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.
prayer moving may
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say.
prayer praying
Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.... Lucy Maud Montgomery
prayer laughing sometimes
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes.
prayer children father
In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them. Louisa May Alcott
prayer self soul
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. John Flavel
prayer wind comfort
That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
prayer eye order
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.
prayer taken manage
When I manage to keep my center, it's usually because I've taken prayer seriously. Jonathan Jackson
prayer angel black-and-white
The angel said, "I like black-and-white films more than color because they're more artificial. You have to work harder to overcome your disbelief. It's sort of like prayer. Jonathan Carroll
prayer believe heart
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious. Jonathan Edwards
prayer answers confession
Resolved, never to count that a prayer, nor to let that pass as a prayer, nor that as a petition of a prayer, which is so made, that I cannot hope that God will answer it; nor that as a confession, which I cannot hope God will accept.
prayer breathing expression
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life.
prayer mean ezekiel
It is God’s will through His wonderful grace, that the prayers of His saints should be one of the great principal means of carrying on the designs of Christ’s kingdom in the world. When God has something very great to accomplish for His church, it is His will that there should precede it the extraordinary prayers of His people; as is manifest by Ezekiel 36:37. and it is revealed that, when God is about to accomplish great things for His church, He will begin by remarkably pouring out the spirit of grace and supplication (see Zechariah 12:10).
prayer opportunity names
And on Thursday, President Obama seized the opportunity of the National Prayer Breakfast to forthrightly criticize the 'terrible deeds' . . . committed 'in the name of Christ.' ... Jonah Goldberg
prayer stupid new-orleans
It upset me that, five days after the hurricane hit down in New Orleans, the President's plan was for a day of prayer. I would have thought a truck of food. A day of prayer. Now, maybe I'm mistaken here and, again, I'm not a scientific expert, but isn't a hurricane officially an act of God? Isn't a day of prayer kind of redundant? Hasn't God already made up his mind on that sort of thing? So we do a day of prayer. The President has his stupid day of prayer. Three days later, Hurricane Rita hits. Somebody must have said something... something like, is that all you got? Jon Stewart
prayer hate school
Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associate it firmly with boredom, regulation, condescension, makework and de facto segregation ... Prayer in the schools will rid us of the bland no-offense ecumenism that is so infuriating to us anticlericals: Oh, so now you say Jews didn't kill Christ - a little on the late side, isn't it? Katha Pollitt
prayer believe school
I'm anticlerical, not antireligion. If somebody believes there is God, I'm not interested in trying to persuade that person there is no intelligent design to the universe. Where I become interested and wake up is about the temporal power of religion, things like prayer in schools, or Catholic-secular hospital mergers.
prayer people events
Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer. Paramahansa Yogananda
prayer restless-mind broken
As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God
prayer half fortune
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. Ovid
prayer coward fortune
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
prayer heart victory
And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us! Perry Christie
prayer helping-others diversity
No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do. Meher Baba
prayer giving people
Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.
prayer lying men
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
prayer powerful self
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
prayer thinking interesting
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. Mary Oliver
prayer attention how-precious-life-is
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention...