Quotes about prayer
prayer tree church
How much I can learn from a tree! The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer. Satish Kumar
prayer talking apples
There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us. Sarah Vowell
prayer book men
To be honest, I thought it was similar to animal husbandry." Sally's tone turned dry. "Sometimes, my lady I'm afraid it isn't that different." Pippa paused, considering the ords. "Is that so?" "Men are uncomplicated, generally," Sally said, all too sage. "They're beasts when they want to be." "Brute ones!" "Ah, so you understand." Pippa tilted her head to one side. "I've read about them." Sally nodded. "Erotic texts?" "The book of Common Prayer.... Sarah MacLean
prayer heart dust
I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
prayer praying dear-god
He prayeth best who loveth best.
prayer errands praying
I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself. Samuel Rutherford
prayer passion mind
Pour forth thy fervors for a healthful mind, Obedient passions, and a will resigned Samuel Johnson
prayer air religion
All prayers die in the air which they uselessly agitate. Robert Green Ingersoll
prayer spring thinking
It may be that ministers really think that their prayers do good, and it may be that frogs imagine that their croaking brings spring.
prayer children intelligent
Every child should be taught that useful work is worship and that intelligent labor is the highest form of prayer.
prayer fall law
Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.
prayer pain passion
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead of faith, upon labor in place of prayer. Most misery is produced by ignorance. Passions sow the seeds of pain.
prayer deeds good-deeds
A good deed is the best prayer.
prayer eye men
The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.
prayer reading winter
Man must learn to rely upon himself. Reading bibles will not protect him from the blasts of winter, but houses, fires. and clothing will. To prevent famine, one plow is worth a million sermons, and even patent medicines will cure more diseases than all the prayers uttered since the beginning of the world.
prayer labor-day answers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers.
prayer noble answers
Labor is the only prayer that Nature answers: It is the only prayer that deserves an answer—good, honest, noble work.
prayer war soldier
A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling
prayer giving people
If you just breathe, and go slower, you will have enough energy. It's really important because there are people who wait in line, and your work has changed their lives. You will need to listen to them because they are also going to feed you and give you confirmation of the prayer you asked before you spoke. Sandra Cisneros
prayer heart tough
Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. Ruth Graham
prayer praying
We cannot pray and remain the same.
prayer men married
God has not always answered my prayers. If He had, I would have married the wrong man -- several times!
prayer school america
We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. Ronald Reagan
prayer men lucky
I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good. Rodney Atkins
prayer moving land
Prayer for many is like a foreign land. When we go there, we go as tourists. Like most tourists, we feel uncomfortable and out of place. Like most tourists, we therefore move on before too long and go somewhere else. Robert McAfee Brown
prayer believe angel
A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. Robert Louis Stevenson
prayer men doors
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers.
prayer want knees
If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them. Wally Lamb
prayer promise levels
A prayer, it seems to me, implies a promise as well as a request; at the highest level, prayer not only is a supplication for strength and guidance, but also becomes an affirmation of life and thus a reverent praise of God. Walt Disney
prayer forever september-11
Those whose lives were lost on September 11 will remain in our thoughts and prayers forever. Vito Fossella
prayer long-ago knowing
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could come to definition. But the puny of soul, the dull of wit, weren't content with that. They wanted to hang a face on the Divine. They went so far as to attribute petty human emotions (anger, jealousy, etc) to it, not stopping to realize that if God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago. Tom Robbins
prayer wall thinking
If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb.
prayer mean lessons
Once all the Germans were warlike and mean But that couldn't happen again We taught them a lesson in nineteen eighteen And they've hardly bothered us since then Tom Lehrer