Quotes of: Prayer Keyword

I would rather make mistakes in kindness and compassion than work miracles in unkindness and hardness.

A Gift for God: Prayers and Meditations

Ask Jesus to live in you & fill you with His Holy Spirit, & thank Him that you’re now God’s child

30 Days to Becoming a Woman of Prayer

Every moment God gives you is precious. Never take the life and moments He has given you for granted

30 Days to Becoming a Woman of Prayer

It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.

Making Life a Prayer: Selected Writings

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

The Need and the Blessing of Prayer

He sent up another silent prayer to wherever desperate prayers go and took the first step toward what he hoped would be salvation.

Snowbound

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you’ll never embrace anything.

The Tidewater Sisters: The Postlude to The Prayer Box

I heard my grandfathers voice. What do they think-- the storms will never come? You build a house on the sand, the sand shifts eventually... Remember that.

The Prayer Box

The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.

The Prayer Box

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

The Prayer Box

One moment of prayer, of weak worship, confused contrition, tepid thanksgiving, or pitiful petition will bring us closer to God than all the books of theology in the world.

Prayer for Beginners

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

Prayer: Does It Make Any Difference?

This was not of the nature of a Christlike lesson for Owen Meany to learn, as he lay in the manger, that someone you hate can give you a hard-on.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

O God, make me worthy of this calling, that the name of Jesus may be glorified in me and I in him.

The Valley of Vision: A Collection of Puritan Prayers and Devotions

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

When God Doesn't Answer Your Prayer

Dawn appears when it appears.

A Year of Living Prayerfully: How a Curious Traveler Met the Pope, Walked on Coals, Danced with Rabbis, and Revived His Prayer Life

Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor.

Mother Teresa

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.

Simon Newcomb

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.

George Muller

If for every well-intended prayer uttered in hopes of making the world a better place, there was instead a good deed accomplished, the world might look as though those prayers had been answered.

David G. McAfee

The Yogic scriptures say that God responds to the sacred prayers and efforts of human beings in any way whatsoever that mortals choose to worship - just so long as those prayers are sincere.

Elizabeth Gilbert