If I ask God to punish my enemy with vengeful prayers, then He is fair to allow the enemy to do the same for me.
This Christmas... Say a prayer for those in need. Be a friend to those in despair. Give all...the gift of peace!
Dependence on the Lord is wisdom and self-reliance is foolishness. But dependence on the Lord does not mean laziness, it means prayerful action and patient perseverance...
Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;
That wish - that prayer - both men and women would have scorned me for - "But, Father, Thou wilt not despise!" I said, and felt that it was true.
For what is the amount of all his prayers, but an attempt to make the Almighty change his mind, and act otherwise than he does? .
The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies.
A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy.
Her bladder felt painfully, solidly full, as though it would burst and release not urine but the garbled prayers she was muttering.
. . . you must not build upon foundations of prayer and contemplation alone, for, unless you strive after the virtues and practice them, you will never grow to be more than dwarfs.
Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.
In the war of magic and religion, is magic ultimately the victor? Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.
Prayer still works, you need not be so quick to judge another person. You never know what they are going through. Instead, pray for them. Send encouragement their way.
If we had more sleepless nights in prayer, there would be fewer souls to have a sleepless eternal night in hell.
Around the Godde there forms a Shelle of prayers and Ceremonies and Buildings and Priestes and Authority, until at Last the Godde Dies. Ande this maye notte be noticed.
I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions
Can I ask you, what is your relationship to God?” “Limited,” I say. “Limited with the exception of spontaneous prayer in times of distress.
As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.
What is it?” “A prayer.” “For a child?” She nodded. “For me?” Another nod. “On a tree?” “Trees spend all day looking up at God.
Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
