Quotes About Prayer

One of the best kept secrets among Christians today is this: Jesus paid it all. I mean all. He not only purchased your forgiveness of sins and your ticket to heaven, He purchased every blessing and every answer to prayer you will ever receive. Every one of them - no exceptions.

We shouldn't make requests of God to try to prove that He is listening and that He loves us. We should make our requests because He is listening and He loves us.

We shouldn't make requests of God to try to prove that He is listening and that He loves us. We should make our requests because He is listening and He loves us. Faith is not the same as assuming that even if we disobey God, He will do for us whatever we want. Faith is claiming God's promises and seeing our lives change with His power.

Nothing of Eternal Value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is.

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn't respond to our needs and requests.

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

I have tried at every point to seek God's wisdom on the decisions I made, and I made it my business to speak up on behalf of the things God tells us are important to Him.

I love religion.

the concept of the halakhah31 that man must act not only according to general principles of justice, truth, and love, but that every act of life be "sanctified," becoming imbued with a religious spirit. "Right action" refers to everything: to the prayer in the morning, to the benediction over food, to the sight of the ocean and of the first flower of the season, to helping the poor, to visiting the sick, to not making a man ashamed in the presence of others.

For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day.

Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.' Then he added, 'Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish wonderful though he is.

pray for us sinners, now, and at the hour of our death

I am not religious, he said. But I will say ten Our Fathers and ten Hail Marys that I should catch this fish, and I promise to make a pilgrimage to the Virgen de Cobre if I catch him. That is a promise.

Pray for anything you like, if it is for the good of us all. -I pray for beer, for meat and for a new wife with hard hands. You can share the wife.

It was good to be in bed, sheets, stretching out full length, dipping his head in the pillow. Good in bed, comfortable, happy, fishing tomorrow, he prayed as he always prayed when he remembered it, for the family, himself, to be a great writer, Kate, the men, Odgar, for good fishing, poor old Odgar, poor old Odgar, sleeping up there at the cottage, maybe not sleeping, maybe not sleeping all night. Still there wasn't anything you could do, not a thing.

I could not fail myself and die on a fish like this, he said. Now that I have him coming so beautifully, God help me endure. I'll say a hundred Our Fathers and a hundred Hail Marys. But I cannot say them now.

not some thing we have. . . . Prayer has nothing to

Nothing expresses Kafka's innermost sense of self more profoundly than his lapidary definition of "writing as a form of prayer": he was a writer. Not a man who wrote, but one to whom writing was the only form of being, the only means of defying death in life.

You can choose to establish a monument for prayer or pray to unleash a movement. One is religious; the other revolutionary. In

Cuando Jesús preguntó a los hombres "¿Qué quieren que haga por ustedes?", no fue porque Jesús no lo supiera, sino porque necesitaba que ellos declararan lo que querían que Él hiciera por ellos.

TO LIVE A PRAYERLESS LIFE IS TO MISS THE LIFE THAT GOD CREATED YOU TO EXPERIENCE. YET THERE ARE TIMES WHEN PRAYER CAN BECOME A RELIGIOUS VEIL FOR AN EMPTY LIFE.