Quotes about prayer
prayer men elderly
It is safe to say that almost every person living in New Orleans at the moment Hurricane Katrina struck shared your belief in an omnipotent, omniscient, and compassionate God. But what was God doing while Katrina laid waste to their city? Surely He heard the prayers of those elderly men and women who fled the rising waters for the safety of their attics, only to be slowly drowned there. Sam Harris
prayer keys indifference
The breath, prayers, and libido of the fingertip must somehow be transferred to the neutral indifference of the key. Russell Sherman
prayer yoga missing
I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me. Russell Simmons
prayer believe school
I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment. Ronald Reagan
prayer believe people
Someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, "Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessory prayer." But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that - or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him.
prayer winning land
The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land. That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer.
prayer taken school
We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got through. Sam Levenson
prayer people religion
Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet. Saadi
prayer writing boys
In a thousand words I can have the Lord's Prayer, the 23rd Psalm, the Hippocratic Oath, a sonnet by Shakespeare, the Preamble to the Constitution, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and almost all of the Boy Scout Oath. Now exactly what picture were you planning to trade for all that? Roy H. Williams
prayer sunday grandmother
Every day before supper and before we went to services on Sundays my grandmother would read the Bible to me, and my grandfather would pray. We even had devotions before going to pick cotton in the fields. Prayer and the Bible, became a part of my everyday thoughts and beliefs. I learned to put my trust in God and to seek Him as my strength Rosa Parks
prayer knowledge science
Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learningsomething. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation. Ralph Waldo Emerson
prayer regret self
Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.
prayer mean men
Prayer that craves a particular commodity—anything less than all good, is vicious. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. It is the soliloquy of a beholding and jubilant soul. It is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good. But prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness. It supposes dualism and not unity in nature and consciousness. As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg.
prayer needs way
So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others. Sean O'Casey
prayer men light
Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.
prayer drug patient
Not to employ prayer with my patients was the equivalent of deliberately withholding a potent drug or surgical procedure. Larry Dossey
prayer thinking people
Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God. Lady Gregory
prayer sleep grandmother
More a paraphrase than a quote, really, but it comes from a prayer which was stitched into a sampler above my grandmother's bed. It began like this: 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep...' Neil Peart
prayer play knees
I play Dwight. That is just much me being of service and worshiping as if I'm on my knees in some temple somewhere or bowing my head in prayer to God in some way. It's really all just the same thing. Rainn Wilson
prayer illumination inward
Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.
prayer commodity vicious
Prayer that craves a particular commodity, anything less than all good, is vicious.
prayer men action
As soon as the man is at one with God, he will not beg. He will then see prayer in all action.
prayer prophet our-prayers
Our prayers are prophets.
prayer pride feelings
The religion of England is part of good-breeding. When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, you cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman.
prayer mean ends
Prayer as a means to effect a private end is theft and meanness.
prayer coffee genius
Coffee is good for talent, but genius wants prayer.
prayer men soul
Is not prayer a study of truth, a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.
prayer schizophrenia
When we talk to god, it's prayer. When god talks to us, it's schizophrenia. Lily Tomlin
prayer psychosis speak
When we speak to God, we call it prayer; when God speaks back, we call it psychosis!
prayer catholic acting
The Irish Catholic side was married to the life of an actor and I found out acting could be a form of prayer. Liam Neeson
prayer animal
God answered the prayers of animals. Thomas Aquinas
prayer home journey
The greater the charity of the Saints in their heavenly home, the more they intercede for those who are still on their journey and the more they can help them by their prayers; the more they are united with God, the more effective those prayers are. This is in accordance with Divine order, which makes higher things react upon lower things, like the brightness of the sun filling the atmosphere.
prayer way obedience
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.