Quotes about prayer
prayer silence unity
To be alone by being part of the universe-fitting in completely to an environment of woods and silence and peace. Everything you do becomes a unity and a prayer. Unity within and without. Thomas Merton
prayer perfect desire
You will never be able to have perfect interior peace and recollection unless you are detached even from the desire of peace and recollection. You will never be able to pray perfectly until you are detached from the pleasures of prayer.
prayer thinking self
In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.
prayer weather climate
I myself am part of the weather and part of the climate and part of the place … It is certainly part of my life of prayer.
prayer roots depth
It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is not to pray, but to go directly to God. . . . The fact is, though, that if you descend into the depths of your own spirit and arrive somewhere near the center of what you are, you are confronted with the inescapable truth that, at the very root of your existence, you are in constant and immediate contact with the infinite power of God.
prayer answers littles
What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?
prayer silence world
When I am liberated by silence, when I am no longer involved in the measurement of life, but in the living of it, I can discover a form of prayer in which there is effectively no distraction. My whole life becomes a prayer. My whole silence is full of prayer. The world of silence in which I am immersed contributes to my prayer.
prayer way
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us...
prayer wind sky
The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.
prayer expression who-we-are
Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.
prayer men soul
Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man. Thomas Carlyle
prayer tired clouds
The bottom line is pray. If you’re tired, sick, emotionally overwhelmed—pray. If you’re on cloud nine and life seems perfect—pray. If you lack direction—pray. If you doubt that prayer makes any difference—pray. If the circumstances of your life are out of your control—pray. If the circumstances of your life seem well within you’re your control—pray even harder. Whatever you do—pray. Tony Evans
prayer wall taken
The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall. It is like a prayer to what is empty And what is empty turns its face to us and whispers: 'I am not empty, I am open'. Tomas Transtromer
prayer desire
There's no prayer like desire. Tom Waits
prayer blessing holiness
Prayer is the burden of revival; repentance is the breakthrough of revival; evangelism is the blessing of revival; holiness is the bounty of revival. Steve Camp
prayer advice littles
The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand. Sigrid Undset
prayer meditation listening
Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility. Shirley MacLaine
prayer secret church
A dynamic praying church must be built from the inside out, employing all four levels of prayer: the secret closet, the family altar, small group praying and finally, the congregational setting. Richard Burr
prayer thinking meditation
Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come. Swami Vivekananda
prayer hypocrite dark
By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.
prayer heart soul
Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.
prayer thinking people
There's a woman in the United States who predicted the plane we were traveling on would crash. Now, a lot of people would like to think we were scared into saying a prayer. What we did actually--we drank. Ringo Starr
prayer moving people
Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention. Rick Allen
prayer flower giving
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven. Thomas Brooks
prayer breathing firsts
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
prayer long looks
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at.
prayer red hurricanes
If you don't feel comfortable with the Red Cross, anything that you feel comfortable sending money to -- that you know is going to get to the hurricane victims -- send money. Because that's what you can do to help. And a lot of prayers. Lots of prayers. Tim McGraw
prayer men hands
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face. Thomas Watson
prayer faithless
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
prayer father breathing
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
prayer doors people
The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.
prayer angel prison
The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
prayer offering names
Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.