Quotes about prayer
prayer believe mean
Prayer means that, in some unique way, we believe we're invited into a relationship with someone who hears us when we speak in silence. Anne Lamott
prayer two helping
Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.
prayer believe simple
I do not know much about God and prayer, but I have come to believe over the last twenty-five years, that there's something to be said about keeping prayer simple. Help, Thanks, Wow.
prayer car church
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
prayer character years
A nun I know once told me she kept begging God to take her character defects away from her. After years of this prayer, God finally got back to her: I'm not going to take anything away from you, you have to give it to Me.
prayer honesty kids
It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.
prayer grief believe
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors. Years ago I wrote an essay that began, "Some people think that God is in the details, but I have come to believe that God is in the bathroom.
prayer thinking soul
The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and I am beginning, only beginning, to know it. If clinging to His goodness is the highest form of prayer, then this seeing His goodness with a pen, with a shutter, with a word of thanks, these really are the most sacred acts conceivable. The ones anyone can conceive, anywhere, in the midst of anything. Eucharisteo takes us into His love. Ann Voskamp
prayer worry action
Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.
prayer reading oatmeal
The prayers we weave into the matching of socks, the stirring of oatmeal, the reading of stories, they survive fire.
prayer wings water
The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters; it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to "World." Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing. Annie Dillard
prayer heart hard-work
You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.
prayer men depth
At the profoundest depths in life, men talk not about God but with Him. D. Elton Trueblood
prayer blessing fruit
Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings. D. A. Carson
prayer people would-be
All of us would be wiser if we would resolve never to put people down, except on our prayer lists.
prayer thinking self
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
prayer self our-world
Our prayers may be an index of how small and self-centered our world is.
prayer blessing drawing
Draw nigh to God, so that you may dread the grave as little as your bed. Draw nigh to God, that you may live a happy and useful life. Drawing nigh to God is the most concentrated energy of the soul. Effective prayer is the fruit of a relationship with God, not a technique for acquiring blessings.
prayer approval reputation
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
prayer worry
Either worrying drives out prayer, or prayer drives out worrying.
prayer house devil
Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation. Daniel Defoe
prayer people religion
Most people do not pray; they only beg. George Bernard Shaw
prayer lasts toil
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants. Alexander MacLaren
prayer turns
Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.
prayer heart agony
As we look upon that agony and those tearful prayers, let us not only look with thankfulness; but let that kneeling Saviour teach us that in prayer alone can we be forearmed against our lesser sorrows; that strength to bear flows into the heart that is opened in supplication; and that a sorrow which we are made able to endure is more truly conquered than a sorrow which we avoid
prayer waiting thankfulness
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
prayer heart grace
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way! Alexander Pope
prayer play identity
It is the prayer of my innermost being to realize my supreme identity in the liberated play of consciousness, the Vast Expanse. Now is the moment, Here is the place of Liberation. Alex Grey
prayer men battle
A man who possesses a veneration of life will not simply say his prayers. He will throw himself into the battle to preserve life, if for no other reason than that he himself is an extension of life around him. Albert Schweitzer
prayer warrior challenges
When a warrior is present and awake to all that she is, she is able to take on any challenge, any project, or any future that she desires. Her daily prayer is to have the strength to love all of herself, the courage to listen to what she is guided to do and the confidence to go out, stand tall and deliver her gifts to the world. Debbie Ford
prayer exercise work-out
Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: Prayer is co-operation with God. It is the purest exercise of the faculties God has given us - an exercise that links these faculties with the Maker to work out the intentions He had in mind in their creation. E. Stanley Jones
prayer mean commitment
Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
prayer abandon sooner-or-later
We find, sooner or later, that in prayer we either abandon ourselves or we abandon prayer.