Quotes about prayer
prayer war agree
Only God can change a season of war into a season of peace. Would you agree with me in prayer for peace? Mike Evans
prayer grateful meditation
I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for. Nathan East
prayer mixing fasting
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer. Nat Turner
prayer islamic men
The first thing which will be judged among a man's deeds on the Day of Resurrection is the Prayer. If this is in good order then he will succeed and prosper but if it is defective then he will fail and will be a loser.
prayer islamic night
Whoever prays twelve rakats during the night and day, a house will be built for him in paradise. Four before dhuhr, and two after, two rakats after maghrib, two rakats after ishaa, and two rakats before fajr prayer.
prayer islamic veils
Fear the pleading prayer of a wronged one, for there is no veil between it and Allah.
prayer answers asking
I know what it is to hope and pray so hard that you're sure God will answer your prayer just so you'll stop asking. Karen White
prayer believe responsibility
Prayer provides an opportunity to remind oneself of how one should be living, our responsibilities to others, our own failings, and our relative good fortune, should we have it. This is, I think, a pretty worthwhile practice and it is not something you can only do if you believe you are talking to an unseen creator. Julian Baggini
prayer spring men
Jenks laughed, taking to the air and saying, “Give it up, FIB man. It’ll take more than you to get her out. Remember what Ivy and I did to your finest last spring? Add Rachel to that, and you can say your prayers.” From behind me came Edden’s dry “You think Ivy wants another stint as a candy striper? Kim Harrison
prayer spring war
The war tried to kill us in the spring. As grass greened the plains of Nineveh and the weather warmed, we patrolled the low-slung hills beyond the cities and towns. We moved over them and through the tall grass on faith, kneading paths into the windswept growth like pioneers. While we slept, the war rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer. Kevin Powers
prayer opportunity achievement
But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement. Ibrahim Babangida
prayer distance men
There is no greater distance than that between a man in prayer and God Ivan Illich
prayer men miracle
Whatever man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself... Ivan Turgenev
prayer two miracle
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
prayer mean emotional
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it. Idries Shah
prayer believe
I do believe in the power of prayer. Geraldine Ferraro
prayer office kind
My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
prayer mean men
To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should. Gerard Manley Hopkins
prayer teaching school
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. J. Michael Straczynski
prayer done ready
When prayers are done, my Lady is ready. George Herbert
prayer men journey
Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]
prayer night keys
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
prayer men may
Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God. Georg Hermes
prayer love-is expression
Prayer assumes the sovereignty of God. If God is not sovereign, we have no assurance that He is able to answer our prayers. Our prayers would become nothing more than wishes. But while God's sovereignty, along with his wisdom and love, is the foundation of our trust in Him, prayer is the expression of that trust. Jerry Bridges
prayer would-be cupboards
We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers of supplication if the cupboards were bare.
prayer expression tangible
Prayer is the most tangible expression of trust in God.
prayer anxiety attention
The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to handle, and nothing is too small to escape His attention.
prayer heart blessing
Wouldst thou know the lawfulness of the action which thou desirest to undertake, let thy devotion recommend it to Divine blessing: if it be lawful, thou shalt perceive thy heart encouraged by thy prayer; if unlawful, thou shalt find thy prayer discouraged by thy heart. That action is not warrantable which either blushes to beg a blessing, or, having succeeded, dares not present a thanksgiving. Francis Quarles
prayer pleasure ends
God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.
prayer night fasting
The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer. Horatio Alger
prayer spring garden
This was my prayer: an adequate portion of land with a garden and a spring of water and a small wood to complete the picture. Horace
prayer men needs
Pray, for all men need the aid of the gods. Homer
prayer praying
how much we're praying for all of them to get through this.