Quotes About Prayer

Part of the beauty of Judaism, and surely this is so for other faiths also, is that it gently restores control over time. Three times a day we stop what we are doing and turn to God in prayer. We recover perspective. We inhale a deep breath of eternity.

Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

This therefore was the merit of the patriarchs, that beside the fact that they were righteous and pious and loved God to the utmost extent, they were also upright. In their relations with gentiles – even the worst idolaters – they acted out of love, and sought their good, for this is what allows the world to endure. Thus we find that Abraham, though he hated their wickedness, prostrated himself in prayer for the people of Sodom, for he wanted them to survive.

It is when we are most blessed that we are most in need of protection – and the protection for which we pray is that the blessing remain a blessing and not turn into a curse – the curse of forgetting from where the blessings come.

On this, the Mishna comments: "Did the hands of Moses make or break war? Rather, the text implies that whenever the Israelites looked up and dedicated their hearts to their Father in heaven, they prevailed, but otherwise they fell" (Mishna Rosh HaShana 3:8).

Jews have a special relationship to books, and the Haggadah has been translated more widely, and reprinted more often, than any other Jewish book. It is not a work of history or philosophy, not a prayer book, user's manual, timeline, poem or palimpsest - and yet it is all these things.

Val prayed the remaining two weeks would fly past. The dangers of being picked off on patrol, or being overrun and killed by Boers in British uniforms, was infinitely preferable to the grimness of social availability in Pretoria

J'ai pensé qu'écrire cette histoire ne pouvait être qu'un crime ou une prière.

comme nous autres bobos pour qui le cours de yoga du dimanche matin a remplacé la messe marmonnons un mantra, à la suite de notre maître, avant de commencer la pratique. Dans ce mantra, cependant, on souhaite que les pluies tombent à point nommé et que tous les hommes vivent en paix, ce qui relève sans doute du vœu pieux mais n'offense pas la raison, et c'est une différence notable avec le christianisme. (p. 17)

Non resta che una cosa: pregare, perché le tenebre non si confondano con la luce

ogni autentica preghiera si fonda sulla morte delle potenze, sensibili, intellettuali, volontarie,

Stop thinking about your difficulties, whatever they are, and start thinking about God instead.

You cannot expect to reach port if you are faithful in your prayers and meditations for a time, and then for a time you forget God.

The highest of all forms of prayer is true contemplation, in which the thought and the thinker become one. This is the unity of the mystic, bit it is rarely experienced in the earlier stages. Pray in whatever way you find easiest; for the easiest way is the best

If one is praying every day, as he should, for enlightenment and guidance, the one certain thing is that he will not go on holding to the same ideas as he grows older, but that he will be continually revising, enlarging, and expanding them. He will die daily, as the man he is, to be reborn bigger and wiser and better on the morrow.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.

Enoch 39:4 There I saw another vision; I saw the habitations and resting places of the saints. There my eyes beheld their habitations with the angels, and their resting places with the holy ones. They were entreating, supplicating, and praying for the sons of men; while righteousness like water flowed before them, and mercy like dew was scattered over the earth. And thus shall it be with them for ever and for ever.

If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

In Jesus' concept, prayer is not for God, but for you. You pray, not to change something in God-Mind, but in your own.

Prayer is the experience of recentering ourselves in that inner light, then becoming a transparency for its radiance.

God is not a person to whom we should pray, but a spirit by which we should live.

one day a disciple came to complain to his teacher. 'Rabbi, some of the congregants are gossiping in the midst of prayer!' " Spira smiled crookedly. "Not such a different world after all, then. And the rabbi's response?" " 'O God,' said the rabbi. 'How wonderful are your people! Even in the midst of gossip, they devote a few moments to prayer!