Quotes about prayer
prayer worry pressure
Worry increases pressure; prayer releases peace. Joyce Meyer
prayer people seeking-god
Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.
prayer book believe
You've done so many things and read so many books. Do you still believe in happy endings?" "Oh my Lord, yes." Bernadette's hands were pressed against each other like a book, like a prayer. "I guess I would. I've had about a hundred of them. Karen Joy Fowler
prayer names ideas
Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great. Leonard Bernstein
prayer children men
Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. Leonard Cohen
prayer thinking scripture
To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence. L. Lionel Kendrick
prayer helping praying
And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray. John Keble
prayer writing form
All writing is a form of prayer. John Keats
prayer meditation unions
Meditation goes in. Prayer goes out. But they both aim for the same place of union between you and the devine. Lisa Jones
prayer laughing soul
if you cannot but weep when your soul summons you to prayer, she should spur you again and yet again, though weeping, until you shall come laughing Khalil Gibran
prayer self expansion
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
prayer joy needs
You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.
prayer sunday journey
I always love to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the church to preserve all that travel by land, or water. Jonathan Swift
prayer loss affordable-housing
The entire Habitat family mourns the loss of our founder, a true giant in the affordable housing movement. Our prayers are with the entire Fuller family. Jonathan Reckford
prayer lessons
Inaugurals conventionally start with a history lesson and finish with a prayer. Jonathan Raban
prayer perspective three
Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity. Jonathan Sacks
prayer firsts fractals
The first of the request prayers in the daily Amidah is a fractal. It replicates in miniature the structure of the Amidah as a whole.
prayer book self
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish festival without food. Instead it is a day of fasting and prayer, introspection and self-judgment when, collectively and repeatedly, we confess our sins and pray to be written into God's Book of Life.
prayer philosophy book
Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things. Jonathan Safran Foer
prayer memories ifs
Memories are small prayers to God, if we believed in that sort of thing.
prayer infinite-intelligence may
If you pray for a thing, but have fear as you pray, that you may not receive it, or that your prayer will not be acted upon by Infinite Intelligence, your prayer will have been in vain. Napoleon Hill
prayer communication infinite-intelligence
FAITH is the element, the “chemical” which, when mixed with prayer, gives one direct communication with Infinite Intelligence.
prayer biblical sublime
Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer. Napoleon Bonaparte
prayer victory gold
Never will I pray for the material things of the world. I am not calling to a servant to bring me food. I am not ordering an innkeeper to provide me with room. Never will I seek delivery of gold, love, good health, petty victories, fame, success, or happiness. Only for guidance will I pray, that I may be shown the way to acquire these things, and my prayer will always be answered. Og Mandino
prayer heart victory
And so with that spirit of confidence in our step and with that prayer in our heart, let us now quicken our pace to the victory that awaits us! Perry Christie
prayer helping-others diversity
No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do. Meher Baba
prayer giving people
Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.
prayer lying men
A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aware of God; but if he is more aware of Him because he is in a quiet place, that is his own deficiency and not due to God, Who is alike present in all things and places, and is willing to give Himself everywhere so far as lies in Him... He knows God rightly who knows Him everywhere.
prayer powerful self
The most powerful prayer, one well-nigh omnipotent, and the worthiest work of all is the outcome of a quiet mind. The quieter it is the more powerful, the worthier, the deeper, the more telling and more perfect the prayer is. To the quiet mind all things are possible. What is a quiet mind? A quiet mind is one which nothing weighs on, nothing worries, which, free from ties and from all self-seeking, is wholly merged into the will of God and dead to its own.
prayer thinking interesting
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life. Mary Oliver
prayer attention how-precious-life-is
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention...
prayer great-men expecting
Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting to be told to pack nothing, except the prayers which, with this thirst, I am slowly learning.
prayer blessed fall
I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?