Quotes about prayer
prayer odds vanity
It is much easier for me to imagine a praying murderer, a praying prostitute, than a vain person praying. Nothing is so at odds with prayer as vanity. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
prayer heart mean
Prayer does not mean simply to pour out one's heart. It means rather to find the way to God and to speak with him, whether the heart is full or empty.
prayer kids
I am in prayer for his kids and the family. Diana Ross
prayer writing celebration
Writing is my form of celebration and prayer. Diane Ackerman
prayer heaven may
Heaven grant that the burden you carry may have as easy an exit as it had an entrance. Prayer To A Pregnant Woman Desiderius Erasmus
prayer war hands
There isn't a damn thing wrong with prayer. During the war I served with a guy who prayed all the time, carried a Bible with him everywhere. We all mocked him to no end. One day, that Bible stopped a bullet, my hand to God, that Bible stopped a bullet. If only he'd had another Bible in front of his face, he'd be alive today. Delroy Lindo
prayer believe night
Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way. Dean Koontz
prayer loss past
This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed. Dana Gioia
prayer bars lord
Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars. Dana Carvey
prayer thinking government
It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer. Dan Barker
prayer successful thinking
Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.
prayer confused fighting
The trouble is that neutrality is confused with hostility. We're not disrupting churches, or interrupting people's prayers. We're not fighting religion.
prayer law atheism
Prayer never changes the laws of nature.
prayer atheism answers
If the answers to prayer are merely what God wills all along, then why pray?
prayer children differences
All you have to do is walk into any children's hospital and you know there is no God. Prayer doesn't make any difference. Those people pray for their beloved children to live and they die.
prayer pigs praying
If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for? B. C. Forbes
prayer helping-others might
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. Ashleigh Brilliant
prayer men giving
The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is, O ye gods, give me whatever is fitting unto me! Apollonius of Tyana
prayer causality dignity
God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. Blaise Pascal
prayer each-day rooms
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
prayer discipline desperation
If I've learned anything about prayer, it's that desperation drives discipline. Bill Hybels
prayer father want
God wants us...to talk to him as to a friend or father-authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.
prayer fall writing
I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer...but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
prayer exercise equipment
Playing around is one thing; following an established regimen is quite another. It's true with exercise equipment and it is true with prayer.
prayer moving focus
How do you pray a prayer so filled with faith that it can move a mountain? By shifting your focus from the size of your mountain to the sufficiency of the Mountain Mover and then stepping forward in obedience.
prayer leader arguing
We cannot all ARGUE, but we can all PRAY; We cannot all be LEADERS, but we can all be PLEADERS; We cannot all be mighty in RHETORIC, but we can all be prevalent in PRAYER. Charles Spurgeon
prayer heart people
God will hear His people at the beginning of their prayers if the condition of their heart is ready for it.
prayer chance habit
Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.
prayer hands use
Intercessory prayer is exceedingly prevalent. What wonders it has wrought! The Word of God teems with its marvelous deeds. Believer, thou hast a mighty engine in thy hand, use it well, use it constantly, use it with faith, and thou shalt surely be a benefactor to thy brethren.
prayer goal ears
The goal of prayer is the ear of God.
prayer motivation inspiration
Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel , crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.
prayer needs said
If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.
prayer men praying
I would rather teach one man to pray than ten men to preach.