Quotes About Prayer

History belongs to the intercessors - those who believe and pray the future into being.

Psalm 34:4, which she had committed to memory, popped into her mind: "I sought the LORD, and He heard me, and delivered me from all my fears." Then she though of Psalm 37:5 "Commit thy way unto the LORD; turst also in him: and he shall bring it to pass." She'd found that passage in Grandma's Bible and had quoted it often as a reminder that she should trust the Lord in all things, while she committed her way unto him.

The Bible tells us in Luke 11:9: 'Ask, and it shall be given to you, seek, and ye shall find; knock and it shall be opened unto you.' Our heavenly Father wants to give us good things.

All God's children are deserving of His love. He doesn't always give us everything we ask for, but He does give us what He knows is best for us.

She knew she needed to quit worrying, stop being so indecisive, and place the matter in God's hands. He knew what was best for her and the children. For now, the best thing she could do was pray and wait on Him to give her clear direction.

Then we say, "Lord God, let me not be distressed." Moron, don't you have hands? Didn't God make them for you? So are you going to sit down and pray that your nose will stop running?

To gain the right to pray when it rains, one must also pray when the sun shines.

Prayer is thinking deeply about something in the presence of God.

At the heart of journaling is an easy-to-remember acrostic: SOAP. S = Scripture O = Observation A = Application P = Prayer

PRAYER Father, may I be so close to You that I can hear Your musings and be moved to action!

A Small Prayer" Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day May break with dazzling light to these sick eyes. Burn, glare, old sun, so long unseen, That time may find its sound again, and cleanse Whatever it is that a wound remembers After the healing ends.

You mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks." I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

began to pray in earnest. She realized as she did so that she hadn't addressed God in any way since her father's fatal illness five years ago. And if God hadn't responded to that life-and-death situation, what were the chances that He was going to bother with a matter as small as Kendall Aims's career?

You have to learn to protect your house before the thief enters, after he has entered, you have to know how to pray."

We can reach our world, if we will. The greatest lack today is not people or funds. The greatest need is prayer.

I'm convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.

I've got some good saints out there - that's right - that pray for me constantly. You've gotta have that!

As I continued to pray raggedly, prayer ceased to be an awkward and self-conscious act. It became a daily need to which I looked forward. If, for any reason, I were deprived of it, I was distressed as if I had been deprived of some life necessity, like water. I cannot say I changed. There tore through me a transformation with the force of a river, which, dammed up and diverted for a lifetime, bursts its way back to its true channel. I became what I was. I ceased to be what I was not.

I crouch beside her bed and stumble through the only prayer I know: now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. It's a appropriate, I think. And still I feel worthless. I want to comfort her, to chase her fears into the snow. But sympathy is buried in me, like a stone in the belly of a goat. And the goat is the rare animal that will eat garbage. I hold her hand until she falls asleep, then steal fifty dollars from her purse.

Mnoge umiruje ?injenica da sveštenici još uvek postoje, da hodaju zemljom, da služe mise, da se mole i ponašaju kao da ?ovek ima dušu i kao da postoji nada za ljude. Tako i sam mislim kad vidim sveštenika koga ne poznajem. Ali kada se pogledam u ogledalo, to više ne funkcioniše.

O gods, from the venom of the cobra, the teeth of the tiger, and the vengeance of the Afghan—deliver us. —TRADITIONAL HINDU PRAYER

The men and women pray separately," the Saudi observed archly. "Much to the dismay of more liberal Jews." "Perhaps we can change that." "Shwaya, shwaya," said Gabriel.

a recitation of the Lord's Prayer. "And may you grant us the strength and determination to complete our

Shema, Yisrael, Adonai Eloheinu, Adonai Echad!