Quotes about prayer
prayer praying christ
When our will wholeheartedly enters into the prayer of Christ, then we pray correctly. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
prayer earth faces
As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth, Efraim Zuroff
prayer sacrifice atheism
Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail. Aristotle
prayer wicked-person affliction
Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never. Ben Jonson
prayer heaven praying
How ready is heaven to those that pray!
prayer grief wish
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death With holy Paul; lest it be thought the breath Of discontent; or that these prayers be For weariness of life, not love of thee.
prayer cities tragedy
My thoughts and prayers go out to the thousands of marathon runners, onlookers, city officials and others affected by this senseless tragedy. Ed Markey
prayer meditation spirit
Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you. Deepak Chopra
prayer flower giving
Wherever I go, and whoever I encounter, I will bring them a gift. The gift may be a compliment, a flower, or a prayer. Today, I will give something to everyone I come into contact with, and so I will begin the process of circulating joy, wealth and affluence in my life and in the lives of others.
prayer littles misinterpretation
Before I put on my make up, I say a little prayer for you. Dionne Warwick
prayer expected ifs
Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered. Edgar Cayce
prayer mean self
To continue to condemn only brings condemnation, then, for self. This does not mean that self's activity should be passive, but rather being constant in prayer-knowing and taking, knowing and understanding that he that is faithful is not given a burden beyond that he is able to bear . . .
prayer answers asking
For all prayer is answered. Don't tell God how to answer it.
prayer meditation speak
Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.
prayer engagement eating
Engagements - they are like a prayer before eating, best quick. Elizabeth McCracken
prayer wish praying-to-god
Every wish Is like a prayer--with God. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
prayer results boldness
Prayer in private results in boldness in public. Edwin Louis Cole
prayer obedience produce
A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.
prayer spring lying
It is a most fearful fact to think of, that in every heart there is some secret spring that would be weak at the touch of temptation, and that is liable to be assailed. Fearful, and yet salutary to think of; for the thought may serve to keep our moral nature braced. It warns us that we can never stand at ease, or lie down in this field of life, without sentinels of watchfulness and campfires of prayer. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
prayer men answers
The best answer to all objections urged against prayer is the fact that man cannot help praying; for we may be sure that that which is so spontaneous and ineradicable in human nature has its fitting objects and methods in the arrangements of a boundless Providence.
prayer believe thinking
People of faith should not invoke the power of the state to decide what everyone can believe or think or read or do. In such cases, like abortion or prayer or prohibition or sexual identity, the proper role of religion is to appeal to the free conscience of each person, not the coercive rule of secular law. Edward Kennedy
prayer educational self
Natural ability and educational advantages do not figure as factors in this matter of prayer; but a capacity for faith, the power of a thorough consecration, the ability of self-littleness, an absolute losing of one's self in God's glory and an ever present and insatiable yearning and seeking after all the fullness of God. Edward McKendree Bounds
prayer bounds plenty
Private place and plenty of time are the life of prayer.
prayer honor aids
Prayer is the greatest of all forces, because it honors God and brings him into active aid.
prayer men causes
God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out His plans.
prayer praying born
Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.
prayer practice perfect
Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labour are required to be a skillful tradesman in praying. Practice in this, as well as in all other trades, makes perfect.
prayer men earth
Apostolic preaching cannot be carried on unless there be apostolic prayer. Men of God, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth.
prayer design heaven
Prayer is a specific divine appointment, an ordinance of Heaven, whereby God purposes to carry out His gracious designs on earth and to execute and make efficient the plan of salvation.
prayer doe ministry
. . . every preacher who does not make prayer a mighty factor in his own life and ministry is weak as a factor in God's work and is powerless to project God's cause in this world.
prayer world shapes
God shapes the world by prayer.
prayer men needs
Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
prayer can-do nothingness
We can do nothing without prayer.