Quotes of: Praying Keyword

What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four.

Russian

I don't believe in school prayer. I think it's total nonsense...who is the teacher there that is going to have them pray? And is the teacher going to be Catholic or Mormon or Episcopalian or what? It just causes all sorts of problems. And what are th...

Charles M. Schulz: Conversations

I have good idea, for if you meet some person from different religion and he want to make argument about God. My idea is, you listen to everything this man say about God. Never argue about God with him. Best thing to say is, 'I agree with you.' Then ...

Eat, Pray, Love

You cannot force people to walk with God. You cannot force them to repent. All you can do is live with integrity and invite them to do so as well. Take things a step at a time. Give them consequences when they refuse to deal with serious issues, and ...

Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only ...

Spiritual Progress

The praying which makes a prayerful ministry is not a little praying put in as we put flavor to give it a pleasant smack, but the praying must be in the body, and form the blood and bones. Prayer is no petty duty, put into a corner; no piecemeal perf...

Power Through Prayer

No man is greater than his prayer life. The pastor who is not praying is playing; the people who are not praying are straying. We have many organizers, but few agonizers; many players and payers, few pray-ers; many singers, few clingers; lots of past...

Leonard Ravenhill

I prayed to what all things hold in common. I prayed to what makes life. I thought about the elements of the universe, the rocks, the stars, the air, other living things. I tried to get the perspective of what's behind all that. I prayed to the force...

Margaret D. McGee

When you're calling for God, whom you are calling? When you trying to find the God whom you're looking for? When you're thinking about God whom you're thinking of? When you're praying for God, for whom are you praying for? You're calling for your tru...

Debasish Mridha

Imagination is the road less taken, but it is the pathway of prayer.

The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Eat, Pray, Love

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

Eat, Pray, Love

This much I do know - I'm exhausted by the cumulative consequences of a lifetime of hasty choices and chaotic passions.

Eat, Pray, Love

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Eat, Pray, Love

Venice is beautiful, but like a Bergman movie is beautiful; you can admire it, but you don't really want to live in it.

Eat, Pray, Love

The day is ending. It's time for something that was beautiful to turn into something else that is beautiful. Now, Let go.

Eat, Pray, Love

There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

Eat, Pray, Love

Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, "The wise man is always similar to himself." -

Eat, Pray, Love

We don't realize that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.

Eat, Pray, Love

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Eat, Pray, Love

We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.

Eat, Pray, Love