Quotes about prayer
prayer bending way
Prayer is not a convenient device for imposing our will upon God, or bending his will to ours, but the prescribed way of subordinating our will to his. John Stott
prayer our-love goes-on
It is impossible to pray for someone without loving him, and impossible to go on praying for him without discovering that our love for him grows and matures.
prayer humble way
Prayer is the very way God Himself has chosen for us to express our conscious need of Him and our humble dependence on Him.
prayer purpose gods-will
The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.
prayer sides meat
Prayer never brought in no side-meat. Takes a shoat to bring in pork. John Steinbeck
prayer suffering magic
I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one.
prayer past men
And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips. No man had touched the seed, or lusted for the growth. Men ate what they had not raised, had no connection with the bread. The land bore under iron, and under iron gradually died; for it was not loved or hated, it had no prayers or curses.
prayer fighting thrones
Ah, the prayers of the millions, how they must fight and destroy each other on their way to the throne of God.
prayer fate evil
Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil... prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon. Terry Pratchett
prayer soul natural
Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul, Nicolas Malebranche
prayer not-good-enough different
When we don't hear anything from God we just don't know exactly what He is planning and we come to different conclusions that maybe He has forgotten me, maybe He doesn't hear my prayers, maybe I'm not good enough. Nick Vujicic
prayer recovery sleep
God helps me for sure every day and at every contest. I broke my hand and had to get surgery on it. The recovery was really frustrating because I had to skip three weeks at the beginning of the season. But I flipped it around and took it as a blessing. I said a lot of prayers and just asked God to do His thing. I did other things to compliment the recovery like getting the right sleep and taking care of my body. But I went back to the doctor after four weeks and he was ecstatic about the recovery of my hand. I take that as a tribute to my faith and my belief in doing the right things. Nick Goepper
prayer hands soul
Three kinds of souls, three prayers: 1) I am a bow in your hands, Lord. Draw me, lest I rot. 2) Do not overdraw me, Lord. I shall break. 3) Overdraw me, Lord, and who cares if I break. Nikos Kazantzakis
prayer children ocean
The Psalms offer us a way of joining in a chorus of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent non-psalmic 'worship' based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who, taken to the summit of Table Mountain with the city and the ocean spread out before him, refuses to gaze at the view because he is playing with his Game Boy N. T. Wright
prayer dedication wind
It takes waking prayer and working prayer and going to bed in prayer each day with increasing dedication. I must be the best person that I am able to be when I am painting. Tonight the wind is howling and the barrels are full of sky water. Morris Graves
prayer feel-better want
We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better. Mignon McLaughlin
prayer listening phrases
I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
prayer mind atheism
Surely our clergy need not be surprised at the daily increasing distrust in the public mind of the efficacy of prayer. John Ruskin
prayer thinking games
First and foremost, prayer is so helpful. But I think that you need to face your fears head on. Don't avoid them or say that you're not scared. Acknowledge it and be honest about it. It's normal to get nervous about a big game or to get nervous about an important event in your life. Matt Cullen
prayer differences perspective
Accept the things I cannot change," I said. "And pray for the courage to change the things I can, as well as the wisdom to know the difference." The thing is... I know this is good advice. It's called the Serenity Prayer, and it really does put things in perspective (it's suppose to be for recovering alcoholics, but it helps recovering freakoutaholics, like me, as well). Meg Cabot
prayer writing praying
For me writing has always felt like praying even when I wasn't writing prayers. Marilynne Robinson
prayer doubt excellence
Without doubt I praise the wild excellence... Pablo Neruda
prayer heart earth
Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation. Philip James Bailey
prayer spirit praying
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
prayer night sight
I pray every night, sometimes long prayers about a lot of things and a lot of people, but I don't talk about it or brag about it because that's between God and me, and I'm no better than anybody else in God's sight. Peyton Manning
prayer joy firsts
Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy. Paulo Coelho
prayer blessing joy
simply to ask a blessing upon one's circumstances, whatever they are, is somehow to improve them, and to tap some mysterious source of energy and joy.
prayer thinking thinking-person
Prayer, to the thinking person, is almost inescapable.
prayer long waiting
Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said. Megan McCafferty
prayer eight people
Pastoring the flock with words. I love that. We always have a prayer time in the middle of our service. We take about eight or ten minutes before I preach, after we've sung, and invite people to come forward for prayer. That's a tender moment to me. I don't preach much in that, but I like to speak to the people. Max Lucado
prayer struggle answers
God is using my struggle. My struggle is the answer to the prayer.
prayer effort waiting
Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.
prayer thinking mad
I would love to have a more earnest prayer life! In my life, prayer is the single most difficult discipline. I love God and there's something in me that would rather do things for God than talk to God. I'm not by nature a mystical, devotional person. I like to do things. And so it's a challenge for me to have a faithful prayer life, but I know God loves me and He's not mad at me. He just wishes I would slow down and turn things over to Him. And that's what I think you achieve through prayer.