Quotes about prayer
prayer attention
Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer. Simone Weil
prayer heart handwriting
All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart. Karl G. Maeser
prayer hands uprising
To clasp the hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world. Karl Barth
prayer would-be study
Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.
prayer important waste
Never waste a prayer on something that isn't important.
prayer way electricity
That's the way prayer do. It's like electricity, it keeps things going. Kathryn Stockett
prayer simple
The most effective prayers are usually the simple prayers. Joyce Meyer
prayer school scary
[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.
prayer trying who-we-are
Our prayers are heard by God not according to what we try to be when we pray, but who we are when we are not praying
prayer people events
Most people consider the course of events as natural and inevitable. They little know what radical changes are possible through prayer. Paramahansa Yogananda
prayer restless-mind broken
As a broken microphone cannot broadcast a message, so a restless mind cannot transmit prayers to God
prayer half fortune
Fortune resists half-hearted prayers. Ovid
prayer coward fortune
The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
prayer rain thinking
Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer. Henri Poincare
prayer mind essentials
The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer. Henri Matisse
prayer distance taken
One of the experiences of prayer is that it seems that nothing happens. But when you start with it and look back over a long period of prayer, you suddenly realize that something has happened. What is most close, most intimate, most present, often cannot be experienced directly but only with a certain distance. When I think that I am only distracted, just wasting my time, something is happening too Immediate for knowing, understanding, and experiencing. Only in retrospect do I realize that something very important has taken place. Henri Nouwen
prayer community clubs
Prayer is not one of the many things the community does. Rather, it is its very beingBut when prayer is no longer its primary concern, and when its many activities are no longer seen and experienced as part of prayer itself, the community quickly degenerates into a club with a common cause but no common vocation.
prayer existence humans
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
prayer goal fruit
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
prayer listening firsts
Prayer is first of all listening to God. It's openness. God is always speaking; he's always doing something.
prayer passionate pursuit
It is God’s passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
prayer community wells
By prayer, community is created as well as expressed.
prayer home way
Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.
prayer thinking involved
As we are involved in unceasing thinking, so we are called to unceasing prayer.
prayer desire passionate
I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.
prayer praying realizing
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
prayer purpose done
A prayerful life is not a life in which we say many prayers, but a life in which nothing, absolutely nothing, is done, said, or understood independently of him who is the origin and purpose of our existence.
prayer heart ideas
The crisis of our prayer life is that our minds may be filled with ideas of God while our hearts remain far from him.
prayer manipulation degenerates
Prayer and action...can never be seen as contradictory or mutually exclusive. Prayer without action grows into powerless pietism, and action without prayer degenerates into questionable manipulation.
prayer silence contemplative
It is to this silence [contemplative prayer] that we all are called.
prayer hands knowing
When you are still young and not yet adult, you want to hold everything in your own hands, but if you have your hands open toward prayer, you are able to stretch out your arms and let yourself be led without knowing where. You know only the freedom which God's breath has brought you will lead to new life, even if the cross is the only sign of it you can see.
prayer pain struggle
You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear.
prayer hands naked
Prayer requires that we stand in God's presence with open hands, naked and vulnerable, proclaiming to ourselves and to others that without God we can do nothing. As disciples, we find not some but all of our strength, hope, courage, and confidence in God. Therefore, prayer must be our first concern.