Quotes about prayer
prayer granted process
Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun. Thomas Goodwin
prayer war school
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century. Thomas Frank
prayer law perfect
The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake. Thomas A. Edison
prayer expression attention
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will. Thomas Keating
prayer thinking giving
One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.
prayer roots silence
The root of prayer is interior silence.
prayer play looks
You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.
prayer powerful helping
Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.
prayer doe praying-to-god
Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God. Thomas Chalmers
prayer blessed praying
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up. Thomas Adams
prayer enemy ears
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.
prayer heaven cold
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven . Thomas Brooks
prayer breathing roots
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
prayer men fire
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
prayer names soul
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
prayer answers cold
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
prayer men dumb
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
prayer heaven secret
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
prayer soul solitude
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].
prayer heaven house
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
prayer long sincere
As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere. Victor Hugo
prayer believe religion
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
prayer son two
I admired and valued Robin as a colleague and friend and as one of the greatest parliamentarians of our time. His wife Gaynor and his two sons are in our thoughts and prayers. Gordon Brown
prayer real believe
Believe in the power of prayer - it is real, it is wonderful, it is tremendous. Gordon B. Hinckley
prayer father thinking
What a marvelous and wonderful thing is # prayer . Think of it. We can actually speak with our Father in # Heaven .
prayer husband father
If you serve a mission faithfully and well, you will be a better husband, you will be a better father, you will be a better student, a better worker in your chosen vocation. Love is of the essence of this missionary work. Selflessness is of its very nature. Self-discipline is its requirement. Prayer opens its reservoir of power.
prayer bridges giving
This is my prayer for all of us—'Lord, increase our faith.' Increase our faith to bridge the chasms of uncertainty and doubt. . . . Grant us faith to look beyond the problems of the moment to the miracles of the future. . . . Give us faith to do what is right and let the consequence follow.
prayer home motherhood
The home is under siege. So many families are being destroyed...If anyone can change the dismal situation into which we are sliding, it is you. Rise up, oh women of Zion, rise up to the great challenge which faces you. My message to you, my challenge to you, my prayer is that you will rededicate yourselves to the strengthening of your homes.
prayer real praying
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real.
prayer father answers
Our Eternal Father lives. He stands as the great God of the universe, ruling in majesty and power. And yet He is my Father, to whom I may go in prayer with the assurance that He will hear, listen, and answer.
prayer real father
Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares for us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.
prayer wine moon
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the wine. Geraldine Brooks
prayer soul draws
Prayer draws us near to our own souls. Herman Melville