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Quotes About Prayer

Because your soul must be lonely. That silence you heard, when you tried to pray—that's the sound of God listening.
~ Emma Donoghue
I pray for John the Baptist and Baby Jesus to come around for a playdate with Dora and Boots.
~ Emma Donoghue
That silence you heard, when you tried to pray — that's the sound of God listening.
~ Emma Donoghue
If you have no time for prayer and meditation, you will have lots of time for sickness and trouble.
~ Emmet Fox
Pray definitely for yourself every day or you will get nowhere.
~ Emmet Fox
Why no aggressive action? Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How I long for aggressive action. I live for aggressive action! thundered Orion squeakily which was unusual. Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round that I may smite it. Smite it with what? wandered Foaly Your secret birthmark? Don't you mock my birthmark, which I may or may not have.
~ Eoin Colfer
She cast her eyes toward the heavens. "Help," she cried. And it began to rain diamonds.
~ Eoin Colfer
Soon-Bok Kim closed her eyes, said rapid prayers in castellano, beat the steering wheel, begged God to save her and her stupid husband, said they would become better Christians.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
Worrying is praying for things you don't want to happen
~ Amanda Eyre Ward
I must remember to say a prayer for all those noble chickens that have died for my honor this day." "You'll be eating some of them at the banquet.
~ Amanda Quick
Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Pray To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Pray To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessed unworthy.
~ Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.
~ Ambrose of Milan
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and a joyful exclamation of thanks for the present.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
What could a mortal say to the merciless Fate? I forced myself to my feet. A'le-Ahnleh was the traditional end to a prayer. By the will of Fate. " A'le-la, " I whispered defiantly. By my will.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
In my prayers, I want to say: Lord, don't be far from me, and also don't come too close. Let me contemplate the stars on the texture of your cloth, but don't unveil your face to me. Allow me to hear the rivers that you send running, but Lord! Lord! Don't allow me hearing your voice
~ Amin Maalouf
herkes kendi tanr?s?na, diÄŸerlerinin dualar?n? susturmas? için yakar?yordu.
~ Amin Maalouf
I despise the zeal of the devout, but I have never said that the One is two. I am not one of those for whom faith is simply fear of judgement. How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of the creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.
~ Amin Maalouf
How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.
~ Amin Maalouf
I am not one of those for whom faith is simply fear of judgement. How do I pray? I study a rose, I count the stars, I marvel at the beauty of creation and how perfectly ordered it is, at man, the most beautiful work of the Creator, his brain thirsting for knowledge, his heart for love, and his senses, all his senses alert or gratified.
~ Amin Maalouf
MATTERS OF FAITH
~ Amita Sarin
Another way to think about Centering Prayer is training the mind to become free from distractions so it can "rest in God.
~ Amos Smith