Quotes about prayer
prayer men liberty
Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man. Thomas Jefferson
prayer moving heart
When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit. Thomas Goodwin
prayer granted process
Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.
prayer war school
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century. Thomas Frank
prayer law perfect
The Bible of nature is the best damn Bible in the world. Its laws are perfect and grand, and all the prayers in the world can't change them. There is intelligence and law in this world, and there may be supreme intelligence and law, but so far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is all a damned fake. Thomas A. Edison
prayer expression attention
In centering prayer, the sacred word is not the object of the attention but rather the expression of the intention of the will. Thomas Keating
prayer thinking giving
One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.
prayer roots silence
The root of prayer is interior silence.
prayer play looks
You should not take prayer too seriously. There is something playful about God. You only have to look at a penguin ... to realize that He likes to play little jokes on creatures.
prayer powerful helping
Perhaps the shortest and most powerful prayer in human language is help.
prayer doe praying-to-god
Prayer does not enable us to do a greater work for God. Prayer is a greater work for God. Thomas Chalmers
prayer blessed praying
Blessed be God, I not only begin praying when I kneel down, but I do not leave off praying when I rise up. Thomas Adams
prayer enemy ears
Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.
prayer heaven cold
Cold prayers always freeze before they reach heaven . Thomas Brooks
prayer breathing roots
The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost, and things will get no better till we get back to His realized presence and power. Samuel Chadwick Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
prayer men fire
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
prayer names soul
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
prayer answers cold
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers.
prayer men dumb
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
prayer heaven secret
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
prayer soul solitude
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan's restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God [Mark 1.35].
prayer heaven house
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
prayer long sincere
As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere. Victor Hugo
prayer believe religion
We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.
prayer praying
Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
prayer ignorance august
Prayer is an august avowal of ignorance.
prayer dark night
Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this Eve to the grinning Unknown. A million doors had once been barred against the evil visitants, a million prayers mumbled, a million candles lit. There was something majestic about the idea, Henderson reflected. Robert Bloch
prayer games play
Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind. Viswanathan Anand
prayer believe miracle
I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle. Divine am I inside and out, and I make holy whatever I touch or am touched from, The scent of these armpits aroma finer than prayer, This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds. Walt Whitman
prayer eye done
You have not known what you are--you have slumber'd upon yourself all your life; Your eye-lids have been the same as closed most of the time; What you have done returns already in mockeries; Your thrift, knowledge, prayers, if they do not return in mockeries, what is their return? The mockeries are not you; Underneath them, and within them, I see you lurk;
prayer flower sea
I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine. Roger Ebert
prayer praying
And when you can't do nothing else - pray. Rod Parsley
prayer team doctors
I love a doctor who can respect that somebody else is on your team, and that's God. Robin Roberts