It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.
You can surrender without a prayer, but never really pray without surrender. You can fight without ever winning, but never ever win without a fight.
When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.
When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'm qualified to write about prayer by being unqualified!
Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.
... I told him I was so happy that I had nothing else to pray for. 'Why,'says I, I've got prayers to sell.
God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.
Despite countless prayers for Joseph to be safe, God said no. His plan remains a mystery. I have had to accept that mystery and trust Him in the dark.
A true Friend...one who sends you caring thoughts, prayers and Love every day is indeed one of God’s greatest Blessings.
We do not want to be beginners [at prayer]. but let us be convinced of the fact that we will never be anything but beginners, all our life!
To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
I offer my performance as prayer for someone I've worked with as an actor or someone who has died. The image that comes into my head as I walk to the stage, I offer that performance up for that person.
Let us change a letter from the word ‘EVIL’ Make it 'Ivil' as long as 'Israel' remains so… Let us protect the letter ‘P’ for Prayers.. for PALESTINE... for Peace..
Prayer was never meant to be magic,' Mother said. 'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled. 'Because it's an act of love,' Mother said.
If you pray for rain long enough, it eventually does fall. If you pray for floodwaters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers.
As a children’s minister, I always believed that I was an evangelist, and at the end of the book, there’s a simple prayer that, whoever’s reading the book could accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior
I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.
The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.
