There stand out in my life many incidents in my youth, of wonderful inspiration and power through men preaching the gospel in the spirit of testimony and prayer.
I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.
I like the monastic life... in the prayer and the praising... this has charged me with new energy, spiritual energy. This is very important for my ministry outside the monastery.
Each heartfelt prayer, each Church meeting attended, each worthy friend, each righteous decision, each act of service perfomed all precede that goal of eternal life.
After much thought and prayer, I have come to my own personal conclusion that we shouldn't tell people who they can love or who they can marry.
The ministry of prayer, if it be anything worthy of the name, is a ministry of ardor, a ministry of unwearied and intense longing after God and after his holiness.
Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation-and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
Prayer is the beginning and the end, the source and the fruit, the core and the content, the basis and the goal of all peacemaking.
When you recognize the festive and the still moments as moments of prayer, then you gradually realize that to pray is to live.
when men tarry in the place of prayer with broken hearts and wounded souls thirsty to reach out then revival is at the door post
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
Sometimes, you have to shot block a friend's prayer because she's asking God to bless an obviously bad dating relationship.
Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.
Some spiritually alert parents hold early-morning devotionals with their families in their homes. They have a hymn, prayer, and then read and discuss the Book of Mormon.
Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.
Prayer is our yearning for God, the cry of our poverty and misery, stretching out toward the throne of His divine mercy.
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
Properly understood, Imagination and Prayer are directly proportional —the more they pray beyond their bounds, they expand their vision beyond their resources, their experiences, their expectations.
I so earnestly believe that prayer can be helpful and guide you and protect you and inspire you. I mean, I'm in awe.
