Quotes of: Prayer Keyword

Grant us a vision, Lord,       To see what we can achieve       To reach out beyond ourselves       To share our lives with others       To stretch our capabilities       To increase our sense of purpose       To be awar...

Prayers for Today: A Yearlong Journey of Contemplative Prayer, 30 Day Sampler

It is simple. Men lose their birthrights for a mess of pottage only if they stop using the gifts given them by God for their betterment. By prayer. That is the first and greatest gift. use the gift of prayer. Ask for strength of mind, and a clear vis...

Richard Llewellyn

What a study in importunity, in earnestness, in persistence, promoted and propelled under conditions which would have disheartened any but a heroic, constant soul. [Jesus] teaches that an answer to prayer is conditional upon the amount of faith that ...

E.M. Bounds

To invoke Jesus' name is to place yourself in his presence, to open yourself to his power, his energy. The prayer of Jesus' name actually brings God closer, making him more present. He is always present in some way, since he knows and loves each one ...

Prayer for Beginners

Barbara was not much for prayer. She prayed at church and repeated The Lord’s Prayer every morning before she began her day, but apart from that, she did not rely much on prayer. Barbara had a theory that God was going to do whatever He wanted to a...

The Warrior

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

The Curse of Chalion

Our forgiving love toward men is the evidence of God's forgiving love in us. It is a necessary condition of the prayer of faith.

With Christ in the School of Prayer

A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep.

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

We could read every book even written on prayer, but that won't make us people of prayer. We learn to pray by doing it.

Learning to Pray

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe

No matter your circumstance, there is hope, strength, and courage to be found.

Two Mothers, One Prayer: Facing your Child's Cancer with Hope, Strength, and Courage

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

Prayer for Beginners

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

A Prayer for Owen Meany

A truly happy woman drives some men and almost every other woman absolutely crazy

A Prayer for Owen Meany

It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don't expect me to change.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Know that we win the war when we pray in power because prayer is the battle.

Prayer Warrior: The Power of Praying Your Way to Victory

After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer and then armed robbery.

Things We Couldn't Say

All during that prison time I really lived by prayer. Be in prayer always, we're told, and back then I was.

Things We Couldn't Say

With that in mind and in celebration of National Prayer Day, today I have proposed in the House of Representatives a Constitutional Amendment that would restore voluntary prayer in our Nation's schools.

Nick Rahall

We look upon prayer simply as a means of getting things for ourselves, but the biblical purpose of prayer is that we may get to know God Himself.

Oswald Chambers

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

Phillips Brooks