Quotes About Life

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.

Christ never preached any funeral sermons.

Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph.

Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that.

In the Lord Jesus Christ we see most clearly the union of prayer and life, the harmony and continual interpenetration of the two spheres of life - communion with God and the work on earth.

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe.

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.

Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself.

Death comes suddenly and life is fragile and brief. No one can alter this either by prayers or spells.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

Is this level of athletic competition the ultimate distraction from real life? Or is it a form of prayer?

Our prayers must spring from the indigenous soil of our own personal confrontation with the Spirit of God in our lives.

Well-developed faith results in well-defined prayers, and well-defined prayers result in a well-lived life.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.

Through His Spirit, the Spirit of prayer, our life may be one of continual prayer. The Spirit of prayer will help you become an intercessor, asking great things of God for those around you.

When our whole life is one faith, hope, love, prayer and silence, a consecrated life always bound up in the Eucharist, then the 'urge' towards God springs.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.