Quotes about prayer
prayer night heaven
Dear Night! this world's defeat; The stop to busy fools; care's check and curb; The day of spirits; my soul's calm retreat Which none disturb! Christ's progress, and His prayer-time; The hours to which high Heaven cloth chime. Henry Vaughan
prayer heaven world
Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.
prayer sleep heaven
Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours 'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was not good After sun-rising; far day sullies flowres. Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sin glut, And heaven's gate opens when the world's is shut.
prayer heart sleep
When first thy eyes unveil, give thy soul leave To do the like; our bodies but forerun The spirit's duty. True hearts spread and heave Unto their God, as flow'rs do to the sun. Give him thy first thoughts then; so shalt thou keep Him company all day, and in him sleep.
prayer wings despair
The skin and shell of things Though fair are not Thy wish nor prayer but got My meer despair of wings.
prayer men doubt
Religion? Yes, I know it well; I've heard its prayers and creeds, And seen men put them all to shame with poor, half-hearted deeds. They follow Christ, but far away; they wander and they doubt. I'll serve him in a better way, and live his precepts out. Henry Van Dyke
prayer thinking world
What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
prayer heart country-love
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!
prayer war vengeance
I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions
prayer sky heaven
Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.
prayer pain heart
What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!
prayer light ajax
The prayer of Ajax was for light.
prayer rain thinking
Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer. Henri Poincare
prayer mind essentials
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer. Henri Matisse
prayer distance taken
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place. Henri Nouwen
prayer community clubs
Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.
prayer existence humans
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
prayer goal fruit
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
prayer listening firsts
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
prayer passionate pursuit
It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
prayer community wells
By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.
prayer home way
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
prayer thinking involved
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
prayer desire passionate
I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
prayer praying realizing
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
prayer purpose done
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.
prayer heart ideas
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
prayer manipulation degenerates
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.
prayer silence contemplative
It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
prayer hands knowing
When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have your hands open toward prayer, you are able to stretch out your arms and let yourself be led without knowing where. You know only the freedom which God's breath has brought you will lead to new life, even if the cross is the only sign of it you can see.
prayer pain struggle
You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear.
prayer hands naked
Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can do nothing. As disciples, we find not some but all of our strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God. Therefore, prayer must be our first concern.
prayer done spirit
Prayer is not what is done by us, but rather what is done by the Holy Spirit in us.