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Quotes About Prayer

Someone has said that Jesus went from place of prayer to place of prayer and did miracles in between.
~ Joanna Weaver
Be anxious about nothing. Be prayerful about everything. Be thankful for all things.
~ Joanna Weaver
We should have a funeral," he said. Pan held his hands clasped in a tent on his lap, and he bowed his head. He seemed to be trying to recall something, and it was a long time before he finally said, "Our Father. Our Father. Our Father. Amen." Then he leaned back, and his face was blank again. He smiled, all white teeth. "There.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
As you pray God's blessing on your children, release your plans and trust God to accomplish his.
~ Jodie Berndt
Live today. Pray today. Let the Lord take care of tomorrow, seeing as how he knows more about it than we do anyhow.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
No price we can pay will achieve entrance into heaven, madam. The Lord has already paid that price for us all and requires only belief in that truth, as you surely know.' Will's smile didn't waver. 'However, we often have the opportunity to be used by the Lord and become an answer to prayer.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
As long as we pray believing. The only way to pray, missy. The onliest way.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
She didn't know what the road in front of her held, but she know the one who paved those roads with hope. The Lord would show her the way. One step at a time. One day at a time. As long as she prayed believing.
~ Ann H. Gabhart
Help" is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn't matter how you pray--with your head bowed in silence, or crying out in grief, or dancing. Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
~ Ann Lamont
Would it surprise you to learn that the rabbis thought that study, and not prayer, was the highest form of worship? They pointed out that when we pray, we speak to God, but that when we study the Scriptures, God speaks to us.
~ Ann Spangler
When you start to make a habit of blessing God, you will discover that daily life can begin to feel like Christmas morning. As your prayer life becomes saturated with kavanah, that deep awareness of God's presence and his overwhelming love, you may feel as though you are wading knee-deep through shards of wrapping paper and mountains of bows to enjoy a pile of shiny new gifts.
~ Ann Spangler
Jesus's words about being present when two or more are gathered in his name should make us think twice about becoming spiritual Lone Rangers.
~ Ann Spangler
But then what do you do?" "I pray for strength." The words were simple, straightforward. Josef pushed against the floor with one foot and the swing moved back and forth, cradling us. "And then you're not afraid anymore?" "No," he replied. "Then I am still afraid. But then I know that God knows I'm afraid, and that is what makes the difference.
~ Ann Tatlock
Oh, this was a cold day In Peter's wonderful town! The shadow grew dense, and the sundown Like purple fire lay. Let him not want my eyes fair Prophetic and never-changing All life long verse he'll be catching - My conceited lips' empty prayer.
~ Anna Akhmatova
This way I prayed: "Slake the dumb thirst Of singing with a sweet libation!" But to the earthling of the earth There can be no liberation. Like smoke from sacrifice, that it could not Fly Strength- and Glory-ward -- alas - But only clouded at the feet And, as if praying, kissed the grass. Thus I, O Lord, before thee bow: Will reach the fire of the sky My lashes that are closed for now And muteness utter and divine?
~ Anna Akhmatova
Wiem ju?, jak si? twarz zapada w sobie, Jak wzrok gasi b?onka strachu szklista, Jak cierpienie na policzkach ??obi Twarde znaki klinowego pisma, Jak si? jasne albo czarne w?osy W mgnieniu oka w srebro zmieni? mog?, Jak si? u?miech z pokornych warg p?oszy I jak suchy ?miech dygocze trwog?. I nie modl? si? za siebie, Bo?e: Za nas wszystkie, ustawione sznurem W skwarze lipca i w styczniowym mrozie Pod czerwonym ociemnia?ym murem.
~ Anna Akhmatova
I will lead a man to dear one -- I don't want the little joy -- And I'll quietly lay to sleep The glad, tired little boy. In a chilly room once more I will pray to Mother of God, It is hard to be a hermit, To be happy is also hard. Only fiery sleep will come to me, I'll enter a temple on the hill, Five-domed, white, and stone-hewn, On the paths remembered well.
~ Anna Akhmatova
1]The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life. 2]But every act in consequence of our faith, strengthens faith. 3]We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
~ Anna Laetitia Barbauld
My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.
~ Anna Lee
We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?
~ Anna Letitia Barbauld
He slid into bed, turned off the light…and groaned as an image of a wise, skinny old crone filled his mind. No, he begged the still night. Sweet Darkness, heed the prayer of one of your sons. Now that she's so close, let her be young enough to want me. Let her be young enough to need me. The night gave him no answer, and the sky was a predawn gray before he finally slept." - Daemon
~ Anne Bishop
Preserve, O Lord, from stormes and wrack, Protect him there, and bring him back.
~ Anne Bradstreet
What shall I do, if all my love, My hopes, my toil, are cast away, And if there be no God above, To hear and bless me when I pray?
~ Anne Bronte
I prayed and fasted. I read the mystics. I studied the martyrs. I began to think I was someone thirsting for God.
~ Anne Carson