Quotes About Prayer

Don't let a day go by without meditation and prayer for some definite purpose, and not for self, but that self may be the channel of help to someone else. For in helping others is the greater way to help self.

The passengers huddled in their wet bedding, salt water streaming down the cabin walls, and prayed for deliverance.

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you'd live to be a hundred years old. I didn't know. I didn't know that you were ashamed of me.

Give sustenance, Allah. Give sustenance to me.

Mariam always held her breath as she watched him go. She held her breath and, in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second that she didn't breathe God would grant her another day with Jalil.

I said to you, Hold my hand. Nothing bad will happen. These are only words. A father's tricks, It slays your father, your faith in him. Because all I can think tonight is how deep the sea, and how vast, how indifferent. How powerless I am to protect you from it. All I can do is pray.

I pray. I pray that my sins have not caught up with me the way I'd always feared they would.

I pray the sea knows this. Inshallah.

That night, I waited until Baba fell asleep, and then folded a blanket. I used it as a prayer rug. Bowing my head to the ground, I recited half-forgotten verses from the Koran-verses the mullah had made us commit to memory in Kabul-and asked for kindness from a god I wasn't sure existed. I envied the mullah now, envied his faith and certainty.

Mereka tidak melakukan apa pun kecuali menghitung butiran tasbih dan memamerkan hafalan isi kitab yang ditulis dalam bahasa yang tidak mereka pahami. Kuharap Tuhan melindungi kita semua jika suatu saat nanti Afganistan jatuh ke tangan mereka.

shade of a wall, listlessly fingering their prayer beads

I thought about you all the time. I used to pray that you'd love to be a hundred years old. I didn't know. I didn't know that you were ashamed of me.

Pray God steers the vessel true, when the shores slip out of eyeshot and wee are a flyspeck in the heaving waters, pitching and tilting, easily swallowed.

Quá»· d? cÅ©ng chi?u nh?ng m?nh gÆ°Æ¡ng, chi?u ?? làm r?i trí các tín ?? h?i giáo trong lúc c?u nguy?n. Ông luôn qu?c m?t nhìn con trai mình, nói thêm và quá»· d? cÅ©ng c??i hô h? trong khi làm nhÆ° v?y.

I wondered if I could call my experience in the chapel prayer--not a long list of asking, after all, or a rote string of words, but rather a kind of sacred listening. [p, 355]

God, if you ever loved me, open my eyes for me when I'm being this stupid! (Ron)

The religions that say you should sacrifice or even pray to a god like that, to ask them to do something material for you, are the religions of desperate and ignorant people.

So no, Serena couldn't and wouldn't settle for just any man, and if she could help it, she would, with no exceptions, marry the man of her dreams. A man who was well-educated and one who could financially bring to the table as much as she did. In particular, a man like Tim, who was chief financial officer for a large insurance company. And if God answered all Serena's prayers, her future husband would ultimately be able to provide

En hytte – den stod, som i tanker – var muret til fjeldsidens væg; den stod der, hvor rovdyret vanker tog stød af en ældgammel hæg. Naar stormen tog fart op til riften, var stenhyttens ejer ej glad; da tog han die hellihge schriften – og knælte saa ned og tilbad

Trust me." This being had saved her life, had even taken bullets for her, and yet there was something so markedly untrustworthy about him…. He flashed her a rakish grin with barely noticeable fangs. "Though if you're the praying type, now might be a choice time.

warriors—be they human, demoness, siren, changeling or any brave creature from the Lore—knew to pray for it as they died. Thus the Valkyrie were born.

When you pray, all heaven prays with you. That's a mighty army.

Ask God to show you any changes you need to make in your relationships. And make sure your closest relationship continues to be with Jesus Himself.

I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.