Quotes about prayer
prayer believe miracle
I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. Walt Whitman
prayer eye done
You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk;
prayer flower sea
I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine. Roger Ebert
prayer praying
And when you can't do nothing else - pray. Rod Parsley
prayer team doctors
I love a doctor who can respect that somebody else is on your team, and that's God. Robin Roberts
prayer tree church
How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer. Satish Kumar
prayer talking apples
There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us. Sarah Vowell
prayer book men
To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't that different." Pippa paused, considering the ords. "Is that so?" "Men are uncomplicated, generally," Sally said, all too sage. "They're beasts when they want to be." "Brute ones!" "Ah, so you understand." Pippa tilted her head to one side. "I've read about them." Sally nodded. "Erotic texts?" "The book of Common Prayer.... Sarah MacLean
prayer heart dust
I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
prayer praying dear-god
He prayeth best who loveth best.
prayer errands praying
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. Samuel Rutherford
prayer passion mind
Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned Samuel Johnson
prayer patriotic pride
For one priceless moment in the whole history of man, all of the people on this earth are truly one. One in their pride at what you have done, one in our prayers that you will return safely to earth. Richard M. Nixon
prayer people flags
A flag doesn't cause someone to sit in a prayer meeting for an hour, and then stand up and shoot people. Rich Lowry
prayer grace
Prayer is a grace through which we pour ourselves out before God and through which He calls us into His presence. Rich Mullins
prayer understanding doe
We never understand what we're praying, and God, in His mercy, does not answer our prayers according to our understanding, but according to His wisdom.
prayer yoga practice
You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc. Rob Bell
prayer reading lasts
Reading is the last act of secular prayer. Richard Powers
prayer heart grace-and-mercy
Your heart has to be prepared ahead of time through faith and prayer and grace and mercy and love and forgiveness so you can keep your heart open in hell, when hell happens. Richard Rohr
prayer eye judging
Prayer is looking out from a different set of eyes, which are not comparing, competing, judging, labeling or analyzing, but receiving the moment in its present wholeness and unwholeness. That is what is meant by contemplation.
prayer rapper vision
I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there? Tupac Shakur
prayer important praying
Do I pray? Yes. Prayer is very important to me. Vera Farmiga
prayer church thermometers
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting. Vance Havner
prayer mean want
If you can't pray as you want to, pray as you can. God knows what you mean.
prayer wrestling men
It is not that God is stingy and must be coaxed, for He "giveth liberally and upbraideth not." It is that we ourselves are so shallow and sinful that we need to tarry before Him until our restless natures can be stilled and the clamor of outside voices be deadened so that we can hear His voice. Such a state is not easily reached, and the men God uses have paid a price in wrestlings and prevailing prayer. But it is such men who rise from their knees confident of His power and go forth to speak with authority.
prayer talking people
I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me. Valerie June
prayer meditation able
I just have to do prayers and meditation and affirmations to myself as I go throughout the day, and that's the only way I'm able to make it through some days.
prayer form music-is
Music is a form of prayer. Toru Takemitsu
prayer moving iron
All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca. Vikram Seth
prayer air religion
All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate. Robert Green Ingersoll
prayer spring thinking
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
prayer children intelligent
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
prayer fall law
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.