My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.
Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin?
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
Arabic is very twisting, very beautiful. The call to prayer is quite haunting; it almost makes you a believer on the spot.
The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.
Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.
I don't believe in WISHES, I believe in PRAYERS. I don't believe in LUCK, I call it BLESSINGS.
Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.
When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
I don't really like the word 'religion.' To me, that's like rules and regulations and paying money to send up prayers. That kind of all weirds me out, honestly.
In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.
No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.
Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass.
Behind every successful woman,there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hardworking woman.If not every married man would be successful.
Behind every successful man,there isn't just a woman but a prayerful and hardworking woman.If not every married man would be successful.
We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.
If I had to do it all again, I would still want my same daughter and two sons; through laughter, tears, prayers, and blessings.
I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.
