Quotes about prayer
prayer self way
The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have worked through self, I will not be enabled to get out of the way. Madeleine L'Engle
prayer heart needs
If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester. Madeleine L'Engle
prayer monologues interiors
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer. Madeleine L'Engle
prayer home self
A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time. Madeleine L'Engle
prayer moving may
To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say. Madeleine L'Engle
prayer praying
Saying one's prayers isn't exactly the same thing as praying.... Lucy Maud Montgomery
prayer laughing sometimes
A good laugh is as good as a prayer sometimes. Lucy Maud Montgomery
prayer children father
In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them. Louisa May Alcott
prayer self soul
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul. John Flavel
prayer wind comfort
That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort. John Flavel
prayer eye order
Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby. John Flavel
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 tools world
Prayer is an invisible tool which is wielded in a visible world. Leo Tolstoy
prayer hair had-enough
I’ve had enough, this is my prayer, that I’ll die living just as free as my hair. Lady Gaga
prayer doe care
sometimes i wonder does god just not care are is he to busy ignoring your prayers Lewis Black
prayer kindness father
I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our Heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me. Lewis Carroll
prayer men discipline
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language. Leon Uris
prayer talking stronger
As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh. Joyce Meyer
prayer believe african-american
I believe in prayer. It's the best... Josephine Baker
prayer believe heaven
I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven. Josephine Baker
prayer meditation causes
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray! Karl Rahner
prayer heart men
God warms his hands at man's heart when he prays. John Masefield
prayer men feet
I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet. John Locke
prayer talking familiar
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God. John Knox
prayer adversity talking
Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach. John Knox
prayer night feet
Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God. John Knowles
prayer attitude kindness
Human mobile devices that may come in handy and can be used anywhere include: prayer, meditation, a good attitude, compassion, kindness, humor, laughter, patience, love and a smile. Customize to personal style and taste. Jody Watley
prayer blessing men
A good man's prayers will from the deepest dungeon climb heaven's height, and bring a blessing down. Joanna Baillie
prayer light wish
Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon. George MacDonald
prayer children love-you
Do you think you love your children better than He who made them? Is not your love what it is because He put it into your heart first? Have you not often been cross with them? Sometimes unjust to them? Whence came the returning love that rose from unknown depths in your being, and swept away the anger and the injustice? You did not create that love. Probably you were not good enough to send for it by prayer. But it came. God sent it. He makes you love your children. George MacDonald
prayer mind enough
Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on. George MacDonald
prayer thinking flow
My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am. George MacDonald
prayer doe genius
If God were not only to hear our prayers, as he does ever and always, but to answer them as we want them answered, he would not be God our Saviour but the ministering genius of our destruction. George MacDonald