Quotes about prayer
prayer poetry paradigm
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer. Samuel Beckett
prayer past taught-us
When the past has taught us that we have more within us than we have ever used, our prayer is a cry to the divine to come to us and fill us with its power. Rudolf Steiner
prayer real character
I watch a lot of different films. A lot of different performances and I find a lot of little things from the films or things that actors do or people in real life who have behaviors or idiosyncrasies that I like or find interesting and I try to remember that. And then I'll do a prayer. I'll do a prayer to ask the character or the spirit of the character to come and visit me. And let's work together. Wesley Snipes
prayer school squares
Jerry Falwell knows who caused the terrorist attack on America: the ACLU. "The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this," he declared on the 700 Club, because, he explained, the ACLU, abetted by the federal courts is responsible for "throwing God out of the public square (and) the public schools."This is a familiar charge and a false one. God is still present in the public schools, where students are free to pray, alone or in groups, so long as their prayers aren't officially sponsored and don't infringe on anyone's freedom not to pray.
prayer unique class
In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one. W. H. Auden
prayer attention definitions
The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.
prayer doe records
It is a terrible thought, that nothing is ever forgotten; that not an oath is ever uttered that does not continue to vibrate through all times, in the wide spreading current of sound; that not a prayer is lisped, that its record is not to be found st William Cowper
prayer praying
The few that pray at all pray oft amiss.
prayer believe petitions
How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.
prayer devil saint
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
prayer each-day
Each day begins with a prayer of thank you... Wayne Dyer
prayer special purpose
The purpose of prayer is not to influence God to grant you special favors, but rather to remind yourself that you are always connected to God.
prayer affirmation ifs
Live as if your prayers are to be answered.
prayer mean praying
Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin. William Gurnall
prayer long affection
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
prayer people mind
When people do not mind what God speaks to them in His word, God doth as little mind what they say to Him in prayer.
prayer promise argument
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
prayer
The mightier any is in the word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
prayer plot three
Satan cannot deny but that great wonders have been wrought by prayer. As the spirit of prayer goes up, so his kingdom goes down. Satan's strategems against prayer are three. First, if he can, he will keep thee from prayer. If that be not feasible, secondly, he will strive to interrupt thee in prayer. And, thirdly, if that plot takes not, he will labour to hinder the success of thy prayer.
prayer promise victory
Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer.
prayer desire praying
It is not only our duty to pray for others, but also to desire the prayers of others for ourselves.
prayer waiting soul
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
prayer done
Prayer will never do our work for us; what it will do is to strengthen us for work which must be done. William Barclay
prayer trying done
We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.
prayer asking want
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
prayer offering order
Prayer is not a way of making use of God; prayer is a way of offering ourselves to God in order that He should be able to make use of us.
prayer men faces
Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to master the situation.
prayer cutting doubt
If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer? William Arthur Ward
prayer answers venture
The privilege of prayer to me is one of the most cherished possessions, because faith and experience alike convince me that God himself sees and answers, and His answers I never venture to criticize. It is only my part to ask. If it were otherwise, I would not dare to pray at all. Wilfred Grenfell
prayer paint made
The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe. Wassily Kandinsky
prayer draws strokes
It lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod. Washington Irving
prayer exercise doe
God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us. Walter Martin
prayer persistence mind
Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind. Voltaire