Quotes About Prayer

He heard her low accord, Half prayer and half ditty, And He felt a subtle quiver, That was not heavenly love, Or pity. This is not writ In any book.

Beloved, we join hands here to pray for gin. An aridity defiles us. Our innards thirst for the juice of juniper. Something must be done. The drought threatens to destroy us. Surely, God who let manna fall from the heavens so that the holy children of Israel might eat, will not let the equally holy children of Niggeratti Manor die from the want of a little gin. Children, let us pray.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

The scent of these arm-pits aroma finer than prayer,This head more than churches, bibles, and all the creeds.

Prayer is not merely an occasional impulse to which we respond when we are in trouble: prayer is a life attitude.

But this is real prayer, down and dirty. It is not nice church prayer that refuses to ask anything because we mostly do not believe that prayers are heard or answered.

It is no obvious or "natural" matter to resituate our lives with reference to the holy power and purpose of God. But that is what we do in prayer.

Save us, Lord, from a religion that ignores the cries of the exploited and oppressed. Lead us into a deeper faith that challenges injustice and makes the sacrifices that must be made to build a society that is ever more truly human. Amen.

Following the lead of Moses, Israel seizes upon this revelation as the clue to its future. Israel celebrates that Yahweh is this peculiar God of covenantal relatedness, even as Israel insists that Yahweh must be the God who is self-announced in this way. Israel "prays back" to Yahweh in an imperative, Yahweh's own words of self-announcement.

The creedal disclosure of Exod. 34:6-7 and the initial "pray-back" of Moses in Numbers 14 form a tap root for Israel's recurring prayer to this You who does wonders of costly solidarity.

Intercession, that is, intrusion into the courts of power on behalf of another, is central to the church's action in prayer.

read your Bible, go to church, say your prayers, and ask God to take care of you; then you need never fear dreams or anything else, for you must always remember that God has more power than the devil, and always will have.

It was not the Soviet government or the NKVD versus Walter Ciszek. It was God versus Walter Ciszek. God was testing me by this experience, like gold in the furnace, to see how much of self remained after all my prayers and professions of faith in his will.

An attitude of readiness to try over and over again in our quest to find God and his will in prayer is itself a grace and a blessing of major consequence.

I am speaking only of a conversation with God, the spontaneous outpouring of a soul that has come to realize—however fleetingly—that it is standing at the knee of a loving and providing Father.

That is, living one's full life for God, taking into consideration first of all the actual and then the remote possible good and evil, and then properly preparing oneself with the help of God for any occasion. This is done by prayer, vigilance, and knowledge. Knowledge leads us to God, gives us God, and [enables us to] have life in him. If somebody says he is happy without God, he lies. No creature can satisfy the soul of man which was created for God.

Podemos rezar siempre si convertimos en oración cada acción, cada tarea y cada sufrimiento diarios porque antes se los hemos ofrecido y prometido a Dios. Tenemos que buscar soluciones dentro de la Iglesia, y no fuera de ella. No podemos separar sin más nuestra vida personal de la de Cristo ni del cuerpo del que Él es la cabeza movidos por un sentimiento personal de insatisfacción u ofensa.

And I learned soon enough that prayer does not take away bodily pain or mental anguish. Nevertheless, it does provide a certain moral strength to bear the burden patiently. Certainly, it was prayer that helped me through every crisis.

I learned there the lesson which would keep me going in the years to come: religion, prayer, and love of God do not change reality, but they give it a new meaning.

God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.

Dominican life, hence Dominican prayer, depends on a healthy life of the Chapter.

I think one of the freedoms that can come from healthy Chapter life and flow into a healthy prayer life is the freedom not to observe.

Jesus did not advocate nonviolence merely as a technique for outwitting the enemy, but as a just means of opposing the enemy in such a way as to hold open the possibility of the enemy's becoming just as well. Both sides must win. We are summoned to pray for our enemies' transformation, and to respond to ill-treatment with a love that not only is godly but also, I am convinced, can only be found in God.

The polarization is such that the conservatives on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting. And the liberals on this side have their prayer meeting and their choir meeting, and the two sides never get together and talk about it. The result is the tearing apart of the fabric of the body of Christ.